Pangenome analyses of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici reveal the structural basis of a highly plastic eukaryotic genome

C Plissonneau, FE Hartmann, D Croll - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
… facilitate the emergence of evolutionary novelty in eukaryotic genomes [1]. Among other …
in gene content among individuals and through the emergence of new genes. Most gene gains …

The evolution of orphan regions in genomes of a fungal pathogen of wheat

C Plissonneau, A Stürchler, D Croll - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
genome assemblies to quantify structural variants segregating in the highly polymorphic
fungal wheat pathogen … in their infancy for complex eukaryotic genomes. The development of …

A 19-isolate reference-quality global pangenome for the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

T Badet, U Oggenfuss, L Abraham, BA McDonald… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
pathogen of wheat based on 19 complete genomes from isolates sampled across six continents.
Zymoseptoria tritici causes substantial worldwide losses to wheat … the largest eukaryotic

A fungal wheat pathogen evolved host specialization by extensive chromosomal rearrangements

FE Hartmann, A Sánchez-Vallet, BA McDonald… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… We performed genome-wide association mapping on a global collection of 106 strains of …
pathogen of wheat in Europe, to identify polymorphisms linked to virulence on two wheat

Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. triticireveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as …

D Cantu, V Segovia, D MacLean, R Bayles, X Chen… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
… Over 90% of the extended CEGMA set, which includes 2,748 CEG variants from six eukaryotic
genomes, matched peptides predicted in each of the assemblies, with an average of 82.4…

The landscape of transposable elements in the finished genome of the fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola

B Dhillon, N Gill, RC Hamelin, SB Goodwin - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
… Repetitive sequences are those that exist more than once in a genome, and are now known
to be common features of eukaryotic genomes. Repetitive sequences include gene families, …

Transposon-mediated horizontal transfer of the host-specific virulence protein ToxA between three fungal wheat pathogens

MC McDonald, AP Taranto, E Hill, B Schwessinger… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… HGT between eukaryotes and into the genomic processes … a gene that has a direct negative
impact on global wheat yields… of host adaptation in eukaryotic pathogens. It also increases …

Acquisition and loss of secondary metabolites shaped the evolutionary path of three emerging phytopathogens of wheat

E Thynne, OL Mead, YH Chooi… - Genome biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… other fungal pathogens with homologous gene clusters are pathogens of woody plants, we
hypothesized that the host range of the WGD species might be much broader than just wheat. …

Distinct trajectories of massive recent gene gains and losses in populations of a microbial eukaryotic pathogen

FE Hartmann, D Croll - Molecular biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
genomes of 123 worldwide isolates of the major pathogen of wheat Zymoseptoria tritici for
robust evidence of gene … , we identified 599 gene gains and 1,024 gene losses that have not …

Draft genome sequence of Karnal bunt pathogen (Tilletia indica) of wheat provides insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of quarantined fungus

A Kumar, V Pandey, M Singh, D Pandey, MS Saharan… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms of Karnal bunt of wheat. In this study, the genome
of T. … Eukaryotic genome contain huge number of repetitive elements. Repetitive elements …