Dysfunctional Pro1 leads to female sterility in rice blast fungi

Summary: Although sexual reproduction is widespread in eukaryotes, some fungal species can only reproduce asexually. In the rice blast fungus Pyricularia (Magnaporthe) oryzae, several isolates from the region of origin retain mating ability, but most isolates are female sterile. Therefore, female fe...

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Main Authors: Momotaka Uchida, Takahiro Konishi, Ayaka Fujigasaki, Kohtetsu Kita, Tsutomu Arie, Tohru Teraoka, Yasukazu Kanda, Masaki Mori, Takayuki Arazoe, Takashi Kamakura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223010970