The velvet protein Vel1 controls initial plant root colonization and conidia formation for xylem distribution in Verticillium wilt

• Annalena M. Höfer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Rebekka Harting,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Nils F. Aßmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Jennifer Gerke,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Kerstin Schmitt,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Jessica Starke,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Özgür Bayram,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Biology Department, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0283-5322

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• Van-Tuan Tran,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, VNU University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3916-2624

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• Oliver Valerius,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Susanna A. Braus-Stromeyer,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

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• Gerhard H. Braus

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gbraus@gwdg.de

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3117-5626

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