Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
Author(s) -
Brett M. Tyler,
Sucheta Tripathy,
Xuemin Zhang,
Paramvir Dehal,
Rays H. Y. Jiang,
Andrea Aerts,
Felipe D. Arredondo,
Laura Baxter,
Douda Bensasson,
Jim Bey,
Jarrod Chapman,
C. M. B. Damasceno,
Anne E. Dorrance,
Daolong Dou,
Allan W. Dickerman,
Inna Dubchak,
Matteo Garbelotto,
Mark Gijzen,
Stuart G. Gordon,
Francine Govers,
Niklaus J. Grünwald,
Wayne Huang,
Kelly Ivors,
Richard W. Jones,
Sophien Kamoun,
Konstantinos Krampis,
Kurt Lamour,
MiKyung Lee,
W. Hayes McDonald,
MoÌnica Medina,
H.J.G. Meijer,
Eric K. Nordberg,
D. J. Maclean,
Manuel D. Ospina-Giraldo,
Paul F. Morris,
Vipaporn Phuntumart,
Nicholas H. Putnam,
Sam Rash,
Jocelyn K. C. Rose,
Yasuko Sakihama,
Asaf Salamov,
Alon Savidor,
Chantel F. Scheuring,
Brian M. Smith,
Bruno Sobral,
Astrid Terry,
Trudy Torto-Alalibo,
Joe Win,
Zhanyou Xu,
HongBin Zhang,
Igor V. Grigoriev,
Daniel S. Rokhsar,
Jeffrey L. Boore
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.1128796
Subject(s) - phytophthora ramorum , phytophthora , biology , phytophthora sojae , genome , gene , genetics , oomycete , botany , evolutionary biology
Draft genome sequences have been determined for the soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae and the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Oömycetes such as these Phytophthora species share the kingdom Stramenopila with photosynthetic algae such as diatoms, and the presence of many Phytophthora genes of probable phototroph origin supports a photosynthetic ancestry for the stramenopiles. Comparison of the two species' genomes reveals a rapid expansion and diversification of many protein families associated with plant infection such as hydrolases, ABC transporters, protein toxins, proteinase inhibitors, and, in particular, a superfamily of 700 proteins with similarity to known oömycete avirulence genes.
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