The fungus Botrytis cinerea infects grapes. When grapes infected with this fungus are picked at the appropriate stage, they produce a delicious sweet wine. In order for wine producers to encourage this infection, they could try to enhance the function of which fungal genes?

A. avirulence genes
B. genes that encode microRNAs
C. sesistance genes
D. genes that lead to the production of NO


Answer: A

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