Kathleen Walker-Meikle

Genomic insights into the evolutionary dynamics of Phytophthora infestans lineages after the Irish Potato Famine

Abstract Background Genomic analysis of infected herbarium specimens provides the opportunity to investigate the evolutionary history of plant pathogens, leading to discoveries such as the identification of FAM-1/HERB-1 as the Phytophthora infestans lineage that caused the ninete...