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Sharma, Rahul, Xia, Xiaojuan, Cano, Liliana M., Evangelisti, Edouard, Kemen, Eric, Judelson, Howard, Oome, Stan, Sambles, Christine, van den Hoogen, D. Johan, Kitner, Miloslav, Klein, Joël, Meijer, Harold J G, Spring, Otmar, Win, Joe, Zipper, Reinhard, Bode, Helge B., Govers, Francine, Kamoun, Sophien 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315, Schornack, Sebastian, Studholme, David J., Van den Ackerveken, Guido and Thines, Marco
(2015)
Genome analyses of the sunflower pathogen Plasmopara halstedii provide insights into effector evolution in downy mildews and Phytophthora.
BMC Genomics, 16 (1).
ISSN 1471-2164
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Abstract
Background: Downy mildews are the most speciose group of oomycetes and affect crops of great economic importance. So far, there is only a single deeply-sequenced downy mildew genome available, from Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis. Further genomic resources for downy mildews are required to study their evolution, including pathogenicity effector proteins, such as RxLR effectors. Plasmopara halstedii is a devastating pathogen of sunflower and a potential pathosystem model to study downy mildews, as several Avr-genes and R-genes have been predicted and unlike Arabidopsis downy mildew, large quantities of almost contamination-free material can be obtained easily. Results: Here a high-quality draft genome of Plasmopara halstedii is reported and analysed with respect to various aspects, including genome organisation, secondary metabolism, effector proteins and comparative genomics with other sequenced oomycetes. Interestingly, the present analyses revealed further variation of the RxLR motif, suggesting an important role of the conservation of the dEER-motif. Orthology analyses revealed the conservation of 28 RxLR-like core effectors among Phytophthora species. Only six putative RxLR-like effectors were shared by the two sequenced downy mildews, highlighting the fast and largely independent evolution of two of the three major downy mildew lineages. This is seemingly supported by phylogenomic results, in which downy mildews did not appear to be monophyletic. Conclusions: The genome resource will be useful for developing markers for monitoring the pathogen population and might provide the basis for new approaches to fight Phytophthora and downy mildew pathogens by targeting core pathogenicity effectors.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | comparative genomics,core effectors,downy mildew,evolution,microsatellites,obligate biotroph,oomycetes,phytohormones,plant pathogen,promoters,rxlr effectors |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > The Sainsbury Laboratory Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2016 12:00 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 01:13 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59167 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12864-015-1904-7 |
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