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Host-specific toxins: effectors of necrotrophic pathogenicity

Date

Authors

Friesen, Timothy

Faris, Justin

Solomon, Peter

Oliver, Richard Peter

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Host-specific toxins (HSTs) are defined as pathogen effectors that induce toxicity and promote disease only in the host species and only in genotypes of that host expressing a specific and often dominant susceptibility gene. They are a feature of a small

Keywords

Keywords: host specific toxin; mycotoxin; toxin; toxin ToxA; Alternaria; Cochliobolus; Dothideomycetes; fungal virulence; fungus; gene expression; gene locus; genetic conservation; genetic susceptibility; genotype; horizontal gene transfer; host resistance; immune

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17629

Collections

Open Access Research

Source

Cellular Microbiology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01153.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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