Plant Genomics: Evolution and Development of a Major Crop Parasite

Peter J N Stokes; Benjamin K Blackman

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.067

Plant Genomics: Evolution and Development of a Major Crop Parasite

Curr Biol. 2019 Sep 23;29(18):R868-R871. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.067.

Authors

Peter J N Stokes¹, Benjamin K Blackman²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: bkblackman@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 31550470
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.067

Abstract

Parasitic plants in the genus Striga bedevil crop production throughout Africa and Asia. A new genome assembly reveals how repurposing of developmental pathways, gene gains and losses, and horizonal gene transfer all contributed to the evolution of these destructive pathogens.

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MeSH terms

Africa
Animals
Asia
Genomics
Parasites*
Striga*