Functional evaluation of Mr-veA in conidiation. (A) Conidial yield evaluated by culturing the WT, ΔMr-veA, and complementation (CP) strains on PDA plates at 7 dpi. Conidiophores were observed at the initial conidiation stage. (B) qRT-PCR analysis of the expression levels of conidiation-related genes in the WT, ΔMr-veA, and complementation strains. **, P < 0.01, Tukey’s HSD tests. Error bars in panels A and B indicate standard deviations of the means from three independent replicates.