Sunil S Gangurde, Walid Korani, Prasad Bajaj, Hui Wang, Jake C Fountain, Gaurav Agarwal, Manish K Pandey, Hamed K Abbas, Perng-Kuang Chang, C Corley Holbrook, Robert C Kemerait, Rajeev K Varshney, Bhabesh Dutta, Josh P Clevenger, Baozhu Guo
BACKGROUND: Aspergillus flavus is an important agricultural and food safety threat due to its production of carcinogenic aflatoxins. It has high level of genetic diversity that is adapted to various environments. Recently, we reported two reference genomes of A. flavus isolates, AF13 (MAT1-2 and highly aflatoxigenic isolate) and NRRL3357 (MAT1-1 and moderate aflatoxin producer). Where, an insertion of 310 kb in AF13 included an aflatoxin producing gene bZIP transcription factor, named atfC...
May 1, 2024: BMC Plant Biology