Multiple Plant Surface Signals are Sensed by Different Mechanisms in the Rice Blast Fungus for Appressorium Formation

• Wende Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wende Liu, Xiaoying Zhou

  Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Xiaoying Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wende Liu, Xiaoying Zhou

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Guotian Li,

  Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Lei Li,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Lingan Kong,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Chenfang Wang,

  Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Haifeng Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jin-Rong Xu

  * E-mail: jinrong@purdue.edu

  Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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