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Polygenic strategies for host-specific and general virulence of Botrytis cinerea across diverse eudicot hosts.
Genetics - 9 Jul 2025
Caseys Céline, Kliebenstein Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Diverse qualitative and quantitative genetic architectures can successfully enable fungal virulence and host range. To model the quantitative genetic architecture of a generalist pathogen with an extensive host range, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of the lesion area of Botrytis cinerea across 8 hosts. This revealed that it was possible to partition the virulence, as defined by the lesion...
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