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Aug 2026
Five novel ubiquitous totiviruses function as virulence-promoting symbionts in the obligate biotrophic fungus Puccinia triticina
It is demonstrated that totiviruses function as virulence-promoting symbionts in Pt, establishing for the first time a functional link between totiviral infection and enhanced pathogenicity in cereal rust fungi and identifying candidate targets for RNAi-based disease control.
Jin-Yang Li, Zhiwen Zheng, Nuo-Heng Wang et al.
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