Fig. 3

Phospholipid biosynthetic genes are involved in conidiation. a Radial growth of the wild-type strain and deletion mutants on the conidiation-inducing medium CMC. b The number of conidia of each strain after 4 days of incubation in 100 mL of CMC medium. c Conidial morphology of the wild-type and deletion mutants. Septa were stained with calcofluor white and observed by fluorescence microscopy. Bar = 25 μm. d Conidial length of the wild-type and deletion mutants. e Comparisons of the ratio of the different numbers of septa in conidia of the wild-type strain and deletion mutants harvested from 4-day-old CMC cultures. The vertical lines on the bars indicate the standard deviations of three repeated experiments. The values corresponding to the bars denoted with the same letter are not significantly different according to the least significant difference (LSD) test at P = 0.01