- Communication
The Geographic Distribution and Natural Variation of the Rice Blast Fungus Avirulence Gene AVR-Pita1 in Southern China
- Xinwei Chen,
- Xin Liu,
- Xiaochun Hu,
- Zhouyi Tu,
- Jun Fu,
- Liping Zhong,
- Nan Jiang and
- Yuanzhu Yang
The avirulence (AVR) genes of the filamentous ascomycete fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (M. oryzae) are known to mutate rapidly under a higher selection pressure, allowing the pathogen to evade recognition by rice resistance (R) genes. Understanding...