Lack of evidence for a role of hydrophobins in conferring surface hydrophobicity to conidia and hyphae of <it>Botrytis cinerea</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hydrophobins are small, cysteine rich, surface active proteins secreted by filamentous fungi, forming hydrophobic layers on the walls of aerial mycelia and spores. Hydrophobin mutants in a variety of fungi have been described to show...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Microbiology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/11/10 |