Sequences of selected marker loci have been widely used for the identification of specific
pathogens and the development of sequence-based diagnostic methods. Although such …

Plant diseases caused by fungi and Oomycetes represent worldwide threats to crops and
forest ecosystems. Effective prevention and appropriate management of emerging diseases …

Many oomycetes are important plant pathogens that cause devastating diseases in
agricultural fields, orchards, urban areas, and natural ecosystems. Limitations and difficulties …

Phytophthora cinnamomi is one of the world's most invasive plant pathogens affecting
ornamental plants, horticultural crops and natural ecosystems. Accurate diagnosis is very …

Abstract The Phytophthora Genome Initiative (PGI) is a distributed collaboration to study the
genome and evolution of a particularly destructive group of plant pathogenic oomycete, with …

Contemporary species identification relies strongly on sequence-based identification, yet
resources for identification of many fungal and oomycete pathogens are rare. We developed …

The advancement in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technology allows the detection of
pathogens without the need for isolation or template amplification. Plant regulatory agencies …

Genotyping is fundamental to population analysis. To accommodate fast, accurate and cost-
effective genotyping, a one-step multiplex PCR method employing twelve simple sequence …

To overview the gene content of the important pathogen Phytophthora infestans, large-scale
cDNA and genomic sequencing was performed. A set of 75,757 high-quality expressed …

▪ Abstract The fungi are the most economically important plant pathogens and continue to be
the focus of extensive research with a wide variety of methodologies. Enhancements in …