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NATURE
卷 461, 期 7262, 页码 393-398出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature08358
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- National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service [2004-35600-15024, 2006-35600-16623]
- National Science Foundation [EF-0333274, EF-0523670]
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- BBSRC [BB/G015244/1, BB/E007120/1, BB/E006795/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0400284] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/F012578/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/07152, BB/G015244/1, BB/E006795/1, BB/C509123/1, BB/E007120/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0400284] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/F012578/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [832760] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Phytophthora infestans is the most destructive pathogen of potato and a model organism for the oomycetes, a distinct lineage of fungus-like eukaryotes that are related to organisms such as brown algae and diatoms. As the agent of the Irish potato famine in the mid-nineteenth century, P. infestans has had a tremendous effect on human history, resulting in famine and population displacement(1). To this day, it affects world agriculture by causing the most destructive disease of potato, the fourth largest food crop and a critical alternative to the major cereal crops for feeding the world's population(1). Current annual worldwide potato crop losses due to late blight are conservatively estimated at $6.7 billion(2). Management of this devastating pathogen is challenged by its remarkable speed of adaptation to control strategies such as genetically resistant cultivars(3,4). Here we report the sequence of the P. infestans genome, which at similar to 240 megabases (Mb) is by far the largest and most complex genome sequenced so far in the chromalveolates. Its expansion results from a proliferation of repetitive DNA accounting for similar to 74% of the genome. Comparison with two other Phytophthora genomes showed rapid turnover and extensive expansion of specific families of secreted disease effector proteins, including many genes that are induced during infection or are predicted to have activities that alter host physiology. These fast-evolving effector genes are localized to highly dynamic and expanded regions of the P. infestans genome. This probably plays a crucial part in the rapid adaptability of the pathogen to host plants and underpins its evolutionary potential.
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