Crop domestication and pathogen virulence: Interactions of tomato and Botrytis genetic diversity
Nicole E. Soltis, Susanna Atwell, Gongjun Shi, Rachel Fordyce, Raoni Gwinner, Dihan Gao, Aysha Shafi, Daniel J. Kliebenstein
The paper investigates how tomato domestication affects resistance to the generalist pathogen Botrytis cinerea and identifies pathogen genes linked to virulence against wild and domesticated tomatoes.
bioRxiv · Jan 30, 2018 · PreprintPlant Biology