Additional file 2: of Inter-genome comparison of the Quorn fungus Fusarium venenatum and the closely related plant infecting pathogen Fusarium graminearum

Co-inoculation of F. venenatum with plant-pathogenic Fusaria in vitro and in vivo. (A) Carrot agar plate inoculated with agar plugs of strains Fv A3/5, two isolates of Fg (PH1 and 602), and Fc UK99. A barrage line between strains is visible at day 6. (B) F. culmorum and F. venenatum spores where mixed in equal amounts and co-inoculated into two spikelets at anthesis. As a control, water was inoculated (C) F. venenatum spores were sprayed onto wheat heads at the booting stage to potentially prime plant defence responses, followed by point-inoculation with F. culmorum spores of two heads per spike" should be "two spikelets per head at anthesis. (D) Wheat plants were treated as in C. Just after inoculaton with F. culmorum, wheat heads were sprayed once more with F. venenatum spores until run-off. Error bars show standard deviation, n = 6. (PDF 111 kb)