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Genome analyses of the sunflower pathogen Plasmopara halstedii provide insigh...
Background Downy mildews are the most specious group of oomycetes and affect crops of great economic importance. So far, there is only a single deeply-sequenced downy mildew... -
Comparative genomics including the early-diverging smut fungus Ceraceosorus b...
Ceraceosorus bombacis is an early-diverging lineage of smut fungi and a pathogen of cotton trees (Bombax ceiba). To study the evolutionary genomics of smut fungi in comparison... -
Gene Loss Rather Than Gene Gain Is Associated with a Host Jump from Monocots ...
Smut fungi are well-suited to investigate the ecology and evolution of plant pathogens, as they are strictly biotrophic, yet cultivable on media. Here we report the genome...
