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. 2020 Oct 19;10:17686. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74574-z

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Hypothetical targets positioning of BeTS-dm and CiTS-dm along A. flavus secondary metabolism. Being ineffective on sclerotia biogenesis while highly inhibitory on AF accumulation, BeTS is suggested to intervene down-stream the bifurcation of secondary metabolism that divide AFs biosynthetic pathway from sclerotia developmental biogenesis. On the contrary, due to the containment effect of CiTS-dm on sclerotia and AF, its target could be expected enough up-stream the bifurcation to interfere with their production, or immediately after, in correspondence of a metabolic knot shared by (and controlling) both processes in A. flavus. Scheme created with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop CS6.0 (Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA, USA).