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The unique genome architecture of the devastating West African cacao black pod pathogen <i>Phytophthora megakarya</i>
2019-11-04
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Phytophthora megakarya ( Pmeg ) and P. palmivora ( Ppal ) are oomycete pathogens that cause black pod rot of cacao ( Theobroma cacao ), the most economically important disease on cacao globally. While Ppal is a cosmopolitan pathogen, Pmeg , which is more aggressive on cacao than Ppal , has been reported only in West and Central Africa where it has been spreading and devastating cacao farm...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f0e9f08c-c5fb-5c12-8d2a-c237b98774d6
- DOI
- 10.1101/826636
