Fabian Runge

TL;DR: It is confirmed that the downy mildew of basil and coleus are unrelated to Peronospora lamii, which is a common pathogen of the weed Lamium purpureum, and a new species is described to accommodate the downY mildew pathogen known to be parasitic to hosts of the tribe Ocimeae.

TL;DR: The genome sequence of Melanopsichium pennsylvanicum, closely related to Ustilago maydis and other Poaceae-infecting smuts, but parasitic to a dicot plant, is reported, revealing a trend of putative effectors to be next to another putative effects, but the majority of these are not in clusters and thus the focus on pathogenicity clusters might not be appropriate for all smut genomes.

TL;DR: A cryptic species occupying a basal position within the Pseudoperonospora cubensis complex is revealed to be present on Humulus japonicus, thus providing evidence that the host jump that gave rise to Pseud operonosporiasis cubensis likely occurred from hops.

TL;DR: A molecular phylogeny encompassing all clades of Phytophthora as represented in a multi-locus dataset and two representatives of the monophyletic downy mildews from divergent genera demonstrates that Phytphthora is at least six times paraphyletic with respect to the downy Mildews.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the genetic structure of 465 Pseudoperonospora cubensis isolates from three continents, 13 countries, 19 states of the United States, and five host species using five nuclear and two mitochondrial loci.