Genome analyses of an aggressive and invasive lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen.

Pest and pathogen losses jeopardise global food security and ever since the 19(th) century Irish famine, potato late blight has exemplified this threat. The causal oomycete pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, undergoes major population shifts in agricultural systems via the successive emergence and mi...

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Main Authors: David E L Cooke, Liliana M Cano, Sylvain Raffaele, Ruairidh A Bain, Louise R Cooke, Graham J Etherington, Kenneth L Deahl, Rhys A Farrer, Eleanor M Gilroy, Erica M Goss, Niklaus J Grünwald, Ingo Hein, Daniel MacLean, James W McNicol, Eva Randall, Ricardo F Oliva, Mathieu A Pel, David S Shaw, Julie N Squires, Moray C Taylor, Vivianne G A A Vleeshouwers, Paul R J Birch, Alison K Lees, Sophien Kamoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23055926/pdf/?tool=EBI