ARAFP2 and infection: The fourteen down-regulated BGCs under late infection conditions included the destruxin (MaNRPS1), serinocyclin (MaNRPS2), NG39x (MaNRPS-PKS1), helvolic acid (MaTERP1), xenolozoyenone-related compound (MaNRPS-PKS3), and pseurotin-related compound (MaNRPS-PKS2) BGCs, in addition to six putative clusters of uncharacterized products (MaNRPS11; MaPKS10; MaPKS14; MaPKS17; MaPKS18; MaTERP9; MaIND1; MaOTHER12) (Tables 2;3;5;6 and Additional file 11).