Figure 3.

Sensitivity to osmotic stress and defects in asexual and sexual reproduction of Δmoplc1. (A) Growth of the wild‐type and Δmoplc1 under hypertonic conditions. Wild‐type and Δmoplc1 were grown on complete medium supplemented with glycerol (1 m) or sodium chloride (0.4 m) to test their sensitivity to osmotic stress. (B) Defect of Δmoplc1 in asexual and sexual reproduction. The conidial production of 70‐15 and Δmoplc1 was examined using scanning electron microscopy (top panels). The ability of sexual reproduction was tested by allowing each strain (MAT1‐2) to grow facing the strain of opposite mating type (MAT1‐1), 70‐6, on oatmeal agar plates (bottom panels).