Effector gene birth in plant parasitic nematodes: Neofunctionalization of a housekeeping glutathione synthetase gene.

Effector gene birth in plant parasitic nematodes: Neofunctionalization of a housekeeping glutathione synthetase gene.

Plant pathogens and parasites are a major threat to global food security. Plant parasitism has arisen four times independently within the phylum Nematoda, resulting in at least one parasite of every major food crop in the world. Some species within the most economically important order (Tylenchida)...

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Main Authors: Catherine J Lilley, Abbas Maqbool, Duqing Wu, Hazijah B Yusup, Laura M Jones, Paul R J Birch, Mark J Banfield, Peter E Urwin, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5919673?pdf=render

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