Results section — Fusarium graminearum infection of different Arabidopsis mutants
To investigate whether a vesicular trafficking protein has a functional role in the compatible interaction between F. graminearum (strain PH-1) and Arabidopsis, the authors screened a collection of Arabidopsis mutants with known mutations in nine immunity genes. Significantly, atmin7-1 and atmin7-2were the only mutants that developed extensive FHB disease symptoms and necrotic lesions compared to wild-type Col-0. Have the authors thought about complementing atmin7-1 and atmin7-2 with a functional copy of AtMIN7 in a gain-of-function assay?