Figure 14.
Rice leaves of cultivar CO-39 infected with the Magnaporthe oryzae wild-type strain 70-15 and the HIK mutants ΔMohik5 and ΔMohik8. The plant infection assays (left) and studies of in planta growth (right) were carried out as described in Experimental Procedures. Negative controls were set up with H2O containing 0.2% gelatin. HIK, histidine kinases.