Figure 4.

Hydrophobicity of wild-type, SM1-deletion, and SM1-overexpression strains. A, Hydrophobicity of wild-type (WT), SM1-deletion (KO25 and KO46), and SM1-overexpression strains (OE38 and OE39). Water droplet (20 μL) was placed on the surface of the colony of each strain after 2 d growth on PDA (nonsporulating mycelium) and photographed. B, Hydrophobicity of conidia using MATH assay (Whiteford and Spanu, 2001). The graph shows the amount of conidia in the aqueous phase in the presence of increasing concentrations of the surfactant Triton X-100 (each point is the mean of two replicates).