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

Table 4 The conservation of PHI-base homologues in F. venenatum and F. graminearum

Phenotype^a	F. venenatum		F. graminearum
Phenotype^a	70%^c	50%	70%	50%
All	679	969	830	1064
Loss of pathogenicity	15	43	13	40
Reduced virulence	162	234	163	240
Effector	0	5	0	5
Increased virulence/enhanced antagonism	7	11	7	11
Lethal^b	51	76	66	89

^aIncluded is the phenotypic impact of the absence of the PHI-base gene in F. graminearum.
^bPresumed to be an ‘essential for life’ gene because of the lack of transformants recovered in a reverse genetics experiment reported in the peer reviewed literature
^c50%/70% target and query coverage from a BLASTP alignment

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