The Sclerotinia sclerotiorum mating type locus (MAT) contains a 3.6-kb region that is inverted in every meiotic generation.

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of lettuce drop, an economically important disease of California lettuce. The structure of the S. sclerotiorum mating type locus MAT has previously been reported and consists of two idiomorphs that are fused end-to-end as in ot...

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Main Authors: Periasamy Chitrampalam, Patrik Inderbitzin, Karunakaran Maruthachalam, Bo-Ming Wu, Krishna V Subbarao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3574095?pdf=render