The impact of chestnut blight, caused by the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, has diminished in Europe due to a natural biological control caused by hypovirus infection. Hypovirulence-mediated biological cont...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39570490);Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant No.96J054), Canadian International Development Agency and International Foundation for Science (Grant No. C/29
Double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) associated with the hypovirulence in strain Ep-1PN of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum were identified and characterized. Three dsRNA molecules with the sizes of about 7400, 6420 and 1090 bp were...