Table 1.

Biological characteristics of the wild-type strain BYA5 and ΔPcDHCR7 transformants.

strain	colony diametera,b (mm)	sporangium productiona,b	zoospore releasea,b (×104)	germination rateb (%)
BYA5	68.36 ± 2.05	174.78 ± 16.93	71.67 ± 8.19	90.55 ± 1.35
KD1-1	60.08 ± 1.02**	177.22 ± 15.26	74.56 ± 9.02	90.11 ± 1.26
KD2-1	53.58 ± 2.16**	164.66 ± 13.32	70.11 ± 6.84	91.89 ± 1.39
KD3-1	50.94 ± 1.76**	55.11 ± 17.62**	17.33 ± 2.34**	90.33 ± 0.34

^aOn V8 medium.

^bValues represent mean ± s.d. of three independent experiments, and double asterisks denote significant difference from the wild-type strain BYA5.

**p < 0.01.