Fig 1. Lifestyles of nematophagous <i>Purpureocillium lilacinum</i>. (A) Microscopic
<p>conidiophores and conidia (c) of P. lilacinum. Scale bar = 10 µm. The soil saprophyte (s) P. lilacinum
colonizes plant roots as an endophyte (e), and the parasite (p) can occur in nematode eggs in the egg mass
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(em) generated after the infection with the plant nematode (n).
Gang Wang, Zhiguo Liu, Runmao Lin, Erfeng Li, Zhenchuan Mao, Jian Ling,Yuhong Yang, Wen-Bing Yin, Bingyan Xie, RESEARCH ARTICLEBiosynthesis of Antibiotic Leucinostatins inBio-control FungusPurpureocillium lilacinumand Their Inhibition onPhytophthoraRevealed by Genome Mining. Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agriculture, Beijing, PR China.
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