An analysis of the phylogenetic distribution of the pea pathogenicity genes Nectria haematococca MPVI supports the hypothesis of their origin by horizontal transfer and uncovers a potentially new pathogen of garden pea: Neocosmospora boniensis

Current Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-36

  Temporini, Esteban D ^a   VanEtten, Hans D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene cluster; Horizontal gene transfer; Nectria haematococca; Neocosmospora boniensis; Pisatin demethylase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUMYCOTA; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NECTRIA HAEMATOCOCCA; NEOCOSMOSPORA BONIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PEA; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. PISI; FUSARIUM SP.; NECTRIA HAEMATOCOCCA; NEOCOSMOSPORA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 4043070561     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0506-8     Document Type: Article

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