Thomas A. Wood

TL;DR: Large tracts of uninterrupted colinearity were found between faba bean and Medicago, making it relatively straightforward to predict gene content and order in mapped genetic interval, and this sequence‐based consensus map was used to explore synteny with the most closely related crop species, lentil and themost closely related fully sequenced genome, Medicago.

TL;DR: 'Verticillium stem striping' is proposed as the common name for Verticillsium infections of oilseed rape, as it is shown that V. longisporum does not develop wilting symptoms, and therefore theCommon name of Verticillia wilt is unsuitable for this crop.

TL;DR: Interspecific hybridization is widely observed within diverse eukaryotic taxa, and is considered an important driver for genome evolution as mentioned in this paper, as hybridization fuels genomic and transcriptional alterations, hybrids are adept to respond to environmental changes or to invade novel niches.

TL;DR: It is concluded that sequence divergence occurs at a slower pace in lineage‐specific regions of the V. dahliae genome and hypothesize that differences in chromatin organisation may explain lower nucleotide substitution rates in the plastic, lineage‐ specific regions of V.dahliae.

TL;DR: The observed genetic diversity of the A1/D1 West population argues against a recent introduction of the pathogen into the UK, but rather suggests that the pathogenic previously established in the UK and remained latent or unnoticed as oilseed rape pathogen until recently.