Large-scale transcriptomics to dissect 2 years of the life of a fungal phytopathogen interacting with its host plant

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BACKGROUND: The fungus Leptosphaeria maculans has an exceptionally long and complex relationship with its host plant, Brassica napus, during which it switches between different lifestyles, including asymptomatic, biotrophic, necrotrophic, and saprotrophic stages. The fungus is also exemplary of "two-speed" genome organisms in the genome of which gene-rich and repeat-rich regions alternate. Except for a few stages...

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