Publications by authors named "J Amselem"
() is a phytopathogenic fungus causing significant economic losses on forage legume crops ( and species) worldwide. To gain insights into the genetic basis of fungal virulence and host specificity, we sequenced the genome of an isolate from using long-read (PacBio) technology. The resulting genome assembly has a total length of 51.
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- Understanding the genetic basis of how pathogens affect plants is critical for managing fungal diseases, particularly in the context of quantitative traits rather than just strong resistance.
- Using the Zymoseptoria tritici-wheat model, researchers identified 19 key genes linked to quantitative pathogenicity through a comprehensive genome-wide association study.
- The study reveals that genetic diversity, driven by sequence changes and recombination, plays a significant role in how pathogens adapt and affect plants, emphasizing the importance of certain genes in influencing pathogenic traits.
Zymoseptoria tritici is the fungal pathogen responsible for Septoria tritici blotch on wheat. Disease outcome in this pathosystem is partly determined by isolate-specific resistance, where wheat resistance genes recognize specific fungal factors triggering an immune response. Despite the large number of known wheat resistance genes, fungal molecular determinants involved in such cultivar-specific resistance remain largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndogenous viruses form an important proportion of eukaryote genomes and a source of novel functions. How large DNA viruses integrated into a genome evolve when they confer a benefit to their host, however, remains unknown. Bracoviruses are essential for the parasitism success of parasitoid wasps, into whose genomes they integrated ~103 million years ago.
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