John F. Antoniw

TL;DR: Comparison of genomes of three phenotypically diverse Fusarium species revealed lineage-specific genomic regions in F. oxysporum that include four entire chromosomes and account for more than one-quarter of the genome, putting the evolution of fungal pathogenicity into a new perspective.

TL;DR: The genome of the filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum, a major pathogen of cultivated cereals, was sequenced and annotated and many highly polymorphic regions contained sets of genes implicated in plant-fungus interactions and were unusually divergent, with higher rates of recombination.

TL;DR: The genome of M. graminicola was sequenced completely and found that it contained very few genes for enzymes that break down plant cell walls, which was more similar to endophytes than to pathogens, which may have evolved from endophytic ancestors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the vtc1 mutant to provide a molecular signature for vitamin C deficiency in plants and showed that 171 genes are expressed differentially in the mutant compared with the wild type and transcript changes indicate that growth and development are constrained by the modulation of abscisic acid signaling.

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of the optimised nucleotide (nt) alignment of the entire ORFs of each fully-sequenced species in the family Potyviridae provided strong support for several subgroups within the genus Potyvirus, suggesting that the continuum of variation that is theoretically available is constrained or disrupted by molecular barriers that must have some biological significance.