Publications by authors named "Peter Voegele"
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- The order of rust fungi includes over 7,000 species that significantly affect agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and ecosystems.
- Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the fungus responsible for Asian soybean rust disease, is a prime example of this impact and has a complex genome that has been challenging to assemble accurately.
- Researchers sequenced three genomes of P. pachyrhizi, revealing a size of up to 1.25 Gb and a high transposable element content (~93%), demonstrating the role of these elements in host adaptation, stress responses, and genetic variability.
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- A study was conducted to develop a high-throughput method for identifying anthracnose resistance in white lupin germplasm, which is crucial due to the disease's ability to cause total yield loss.
- Controlled stem inoculation of seedlings showed strong correlations with field assessments, surpassing traditional field phenotyping methods in reliability.
- Eight white lupin accessions were identified as having better resistance to anthracnose; these findings suggest that the new phenotyping technique can effectively support lupin breeding efforts.
Background: BRCA1 interacting protein C-terminal helicase 1 (BRIP1) is one of the Fanconi Anaemia Complementation (FANC) group family of DNA repair proteins. Biallelic mutations in BRIP1 are responsible for FANC group J, and previous studies have also suggested that rare protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. These studies have led to inclusion of BRIP1 on targeted sequencing panels for breast cancer risk prediction.
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