Publications by authors named "Jerome Compain"
Article Synopsis
- 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 PDFZymoseptoria tritici is the causal agent of Septoria tritici blotch, a major pathogen of wheat globally and the most damaging pathogen of wheat in Europe. A gene-for-gene (GFG) interaction between Z. tritici and wheat cultivars carrying the Stb6 resistance gene has been postulated for many years, but the genes have not been identified.
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