A Novel Role for Catalase B in the Maintenance of Fungal Cell-Wall Integrity During Host Invasion in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea

Asexual spores of the rice blast fungus germinate to produce a specialized and melanized infection structure, the appressorium, which is pivotal to successful plant penetration. To investigate whether Magnaporthe grisea counteracts the toxic burst of H2O2 localized beneath the site of attempted inva...

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Main Authors: Pari Skamnioti, Catherine Henderson, Ziguo Zhang, Zena Robinson, Sarah Jane Gurr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2007-05-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
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Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-20-5-0568