A hypovirulence-associated capsidless bi-segmented ssRNA mycovirus enhances melanin and microsclerotial production in a vascular phytopathogenic fungus

• Jiamin Gao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resource in Tarim Basin, College of Life Science and Technology, Tarim University, Alar, China, National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Xuekun Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oasis Agricultural Pest Management and Plant Protection Resources Utilization, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Jichun Jia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Huang Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Jiasen Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Yanping Fu,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Xueqiong Xiao,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Bo Li,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Tao Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Xiao Yu,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Longfu Zhu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliations Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Tom Hsiang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Daohong Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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• Lili Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: jiataoxie@mail.hzau.edu.cn (JX); zhanglily@taru.edu.cn (LZ)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resource in Tarim Basin, College of Life Science and Technology, Tarim University, Alar, China

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• Jiatao Xie

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

  * E-mail: jiataoxie@mail.hzau.edu.cn (JX); zhanglily@taru.edu.cn (LZ)

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1961-0338

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