*2.7. UV Sensitivity Assay*

Five microliters of serial diluted conidial suspensions (106, 105, 10<sup>4</sup> conidia/mL) from cultures grown in liquid straw media was point-inoculated onto CM agar medium. The plates were exposed to UV-C light (provided by UVB HL-2000 Hybridizer, peaking at 245 nm, 0.2 kJ/m2) and then allowed to recover in dark or under white light for two days at 23 ◦C. The UV sensitivity of each strain was determined by comparing the survival of colonial cultures grown in light versus dark after UV exposure.
