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Comparative genomics and transcriptomics reveal differences in effector complement and expression between races of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae
Helen J. Bates, Jamie Pike, R. Jordan Price, Sascha Jenkins, John Connell, Andrew Legg, Andrew Armitage, Richard J. Harrison and John P. Clarkson
This study presents the first genome and transcriptome analyses for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae (Fola) which causes Fusarium wilt disease of lettuce. Long-read genome sequencing of three race 1 (Fola1) and three race 4 (Fola4) isolates revealed key differences in putative effector complement between races and with other F. oxysporum ff. spp. following mimp-based bioinformatic analyses.