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Changing Ploidy as a Strategy: The Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Shifts Ploidy in Relation to Its Sexuality.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2017
Li Ying, Shen He, Zhou Qian, Qian Kun, van der Lee Theo, Huang Sanwen
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The oomycete Phytophthora infestans was the causal agent of the Irish Great Famine and is a recurring threat to global food security. The pathogen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, with high potential to adapt to various environments and great risk to break disease resistance genes in potato. As are other oomycetes, P. infestans is regarded to be diploid during the vegetative phase of its life cycle,...
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