Local adaptation drives the diversification of effectors in the fungal wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum in the United States
J. Richards, E. Stukenbrock, J. Carpenter, Z. Liu, C. Cowger, J. Faris, T. L. Friesen
This study uses whole genome resequencing of 197 Parastagonospora nodorum isolates to show that local adaptation drives effector gene diversification and genomic selection in response to host resistance/susceptibility in U.S. wheat production regions.
bioRxiv · May 31, 2019Evolutionary Biology