Identifying genes essential to fungal pathogenesis
By understanding how pathogens infect plants, we could find new methods for disease control.
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Kroll, E. et al. (2025) A conserved fungal Knr4/Smi1 protein is crucial for maintaining cell wall stress tolerance and host plant pathogenesis. PLoS Pathogens. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012769
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