Publications by authors named "Ambrose Andongabo"
First Draft Genome Sequence of a UK Strain (UK99) of Fusarium culmorum.
Genome Announc
September 2016
Fusarium culmorum is a soilborne fungal plant pathogen that causes foot and root rot and Fusarium head blight on small-grain cereals, in particular on wheat and barley. We report herein the draft genome sequence of a 1998 field strain called FcUK99 adapted to the temperate climate found in England.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ramularia collo-cygni is a newly important, foliar fungal pathogen of barley that causes the disease Ramularia leaf spot. The fungus exhibits a prolonged endophytic growth stage before switching life habit to become an aggressive, necrotrophic pathogen that causes significant losses to green leaf area and hence grain yield and quality.
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The hemibiotrophic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici causes Septoria tritici blotch disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum). Pathogen reproduction on wheat occurs without cell penetration, suggesting that dynamic and intimate intercellular communication occurs between fungus and plant throughout the disease cycle. We used deep RNA sequencing and metabolomics to investigate the physiology of plant and pathogen throughout an asexual reproductive cycle of Z.
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- The study investigates how the secondary cell wall (SCW) properties in willow (Salix purpurea) affect its potential as a biomass feedstock for bioenergy and biofuels, noting the lack of previous research in this area.
- A specialized bud culture system was developed to analyze changes in cell wall composition and gene expression during the early growth stages of willow, revealing significant increases in xylan content and associated transcripts for cellulose, xylan, and lignin synthesis after transferring to soil.
- The findings indicate that willow's SCW development closely resembles that of related species like Populus, while also providing new insights into the patterns of xylan-related gene expression and its correlation with xylan composition in different tissues.
Associating phenotypic traits and quantitative trait loci (QTL) to causative regions of the underlying genome is a key goal in agricultural research. InterStoreDB is a suite of integrated databases designed to assist in this process. The individual databases are species independent and generic in design, providing access to curated datasets relating to plant populations, phenotypic traits, genetic maps, marker loci and QTL, with links to functional gene annotation and genomic sequence data.
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