The State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Curr Biol. 2016 Sep 26;26(18):R843-R845. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.038.
The fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae causes severe disease symptoms and yield losses on rice plants. A new study shows that this fungus elicits disease lesions by co-opting a host protein and reveals how rice plants fight back.
真菌病原体稻瘟病菌会在水稻植株上引发严重的病害症状和减产。一项新的研究表明,这种真菌通过劫持宿主蛋白来引发病害斑,并揭示了水稻植株的反击机制。