Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

BJ, Haas; S, Kamoun; MC, Zody; RH, Jiang; RE, Handsaker; LM, Cano; M, Grabherr; CD, Kodira; S, Raffaele; T, Torto-Alalibo; TO, Bozkurt; AM, Ah-Fong; L, Alvarado; VL, Anderson; MR, Armstrong; A, Avrova; L, Baxter; J, Beynon; PC, Boevink; SR, Bollmann; JI, Bos; V, Bulone; G, Cai; C, Cakir; JC, Carrington; M, Chawner; L, Conti; S, Costanzo; R, Ewan; N, Fahlgren; MA, Fischbach; J, Fugelstad; EM, Gilroy; S, Gnerre; PJ, Green; LJ, Grenville-Briggs; J, Griffith; NJ, Grünwald; K, Horn; NR, Horner; CH, Hu; E, Huitema; DH, Jeong; AM, Jones; JD, Jones; RW, Jones; EK, Karlsson; SG, Kunjeti; K, Lamour; Z, Liu; L, Ma; D, Maclean; MC, Chibucos; H, McDonald; J, McWalters; HJ, Meijer; W, Morgan; PF, Morris; CA, Munro; K, O'Neill; M, Ospina-Giraldo; A, Pinzón; L, Pritchard; B, Ramsahoye; Q, Ren; S, Restrepo; S, Roy; A, Sadanandom; A, Savidor; S, Schornack; DC, Schwartz; UD, Schumann; B, Schwessinger; L, Seyer; T, Sharpe; C, Silvar; J, Song; DJ, Studholme; S, Sykes; M, Thines; de Vondervoort PJ, van; V, Phuntumart; S, Wawra; R, Weide; J, Win; C, Young; S, Zhou; W, Fry; BC, Meyers; West P, van; J, Ristaino; F, Govers; PR, Birch; SC, Whisson; HS, Judelson; C, Nusbaum

doi:10.1038/nature08358

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Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

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Haas BJ

Kamoun S

Zody MC

Abstract

Phytophthora infestans is the most destructive pathogen of potato and a model organism for the oomycetes, a distinct lineage of fungus-like eukaryotes that are related to organisms such as brown algae and diatoms. As the agent of the Irish potato famine in the mid-nineteenth century, P. infestans ha...

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