Different Chitin Synthase Genes Are Required for Various Developmental and Plant Infection Processes in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

• Ling-An Kong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-An Kong, Jun Yang

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Jun Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-An Kong, Jun Yang

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Guo-Tian Li,

  Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Lin-Lu Qi,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Yu-Jun Zhang,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Chen-Fang Wang,

  Affiliation College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Wen-Sheng Zhao,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Jin-Rong Xu ,

  * E-mail: jinrong@purdue.edu (JRX); pengyl@cau.edu.cn (YLP)

  Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• You-Liang Peng

  * E-mail: jinrong@purdue.edu (JRX); pengyl@cau.edu.cn (YLP)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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