About Lesson
1. A toxin should produce all symptoms characteristic of the disease
2. Sensitivity to toxin will be correlated with susceptibility to pathogen
3. Toxin production by the pathogen will be directly related to its ability to cause disease.
Except, victorin, the toxic metabolite of Cochliobolus victoriae, the vast majority of toxins associated with plant diseases fail to exhibit all the above characters.
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