Uncoated controls as well as BSA-coated G-Sephadex beads were melanized in a normal manner.
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The heavily melanized melanosomes did not have an altered shape, which suggests a lesser degree of membrane dynamics of stage IV melanosomes.
3
Asexual spores of the rice blast fungus germinate to produce a specialized and melanized infection structure, the appressorium, which is pivotal to successful plant penetration.