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Members of group III histidine kinases from different filamentous fungi were previously shown to mediate osmoregulation and resistance to dicarboximide, phenylpyrrole and, aromatic hydrocarbon fungicides. In this study, we report the disruption of the gene encoding group III histidine kinase, AlHK1, in the economically important plant pathogen Alternaria longipes. The AlHK1 gene disruption had pleiotropic effects on this fungus. Besides the expected osmosensitivity and fungicides resistance, AlHK1 participated in the spore production process. In addition, the ΔAlHK1 strains had stronger aggressive ability to infect their host plant than that of their parental strain, the wild-type strain C-00, suggested that AlHK1 was involved in the pathogenicity of A. longipes and performed in this function by a negative manner. This is the first report to our knowledge.
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The author acknowledges the support given by the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600), the Department of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province (2009CI052) and Program for Applied Basic Research of Yunnan Province (2010ZC056) for this study.
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Y. Y. Luo and J. K. Yang contributed equally to this work.
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Luo, Y.Y., Yang, J.K., Zhu, M.L. et al. The Group III Two-Component Histidine Kinase AlHK1 is Involved in Fungicides Resistance, Osmosensitivity, Spore Production and Impacts Negatively Pathogenicity in Alternaria longipes . Curr Microbiol 64, 449–456 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-012-0093-8
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