Genomics of Plant-Associated Fungi and Oomycetes: Dicot Pathogens

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dean, Ralph A. (Editor), Lichens-Park, Ann (Editor), Kole, Chittaranjan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Plant pathology.; Plant breeding.; Mycology.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. It illustrates some fundamental discoveries about these eukaryotic microbes with regard to the overall structure of their genomes, their lifestyles and the molecula...

Table of Contents:

• Genomics of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
• The Genome of Botrytis cinerea, a ubiquitous broad host range necrotroph
• Alternaria Comparative Genomics: The Secret Life of Rots
• Verticillium alfalfae and V. dahliae, agents of Verticillium wilt diseases
• Fusarium oxysporum
• Illuminating the Phytophthora capsici genome
• The Phytophthora sojae genome sequence: foundation for a revolution
• Phytophthora ramorum
• Phytophthora infestans
• Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis: a model pathogen of Arabidopsis.  .