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The fungal genus Cochliobolus and toxin-mediated plant disease
1Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-6057.
Trends in Microbiology
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Several times in this century, new and sometimes devastating diseases of cereal crops, caused by fungi in the genus Cochliobolus, have suddenly appeared. In many fungal diseases of plants the factors required for pathogenicity are unknown; in contrast, the key elements in each of several Cochliobolus diseases are known to be host-selective toxins. Recent research on these systems has given surprising insights into the genetic basis of fungal pathogenicity and plant susceptibility to disease.