Methionine biosynthesis enzyme MoMet2 is required for rice blast fungus pathogenicity by promoting virulence gene expression via reducing 5mC modification

• Huimin Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Pengcheng Mo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Jun Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Zhuoer Xie,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Xinyu Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Han Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Leiyun Yang,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Muxing Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Haifeng Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Ping Wang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Zhengguang Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhgzhang@njau.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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