Search Results - "Sotiropoulos, Alexandros G"
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Respiratory eukaryotic virome expansion and bacteriophage deficiency characterize childhood asthma
Published in Scientific reports (23-05-2023)“…Asthma development and exacerbation is linked to respiratory virus infections. There is limited information regarding the presence of viruses during…”
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The broad use of the Pm8 resistance gene in wheat resulted in hypermutation of the AvrPm8 gene in the powdery mildew pathogen
Published in BMC biology (08-02-2023)“…Worldwide wheat production is under constant threat by fast-evolving fungal pathogens. In the last decades, wheat breeding for disease resistance heavily…”
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Mutagenesis of Wheat Powdery Mildew Reveals a Single Gene Controlling Both NLR and Tandem Kinase-Mediated Immunity
Published in Molecular plant-microbe interactions (01-03-2024)“…f. sp. ( ) is a globally important fungal wheat pathogen. Some wheat genotypes contain powdery mildew resistance ( ) genes encoding immune receptors that…”
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Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade
Published in Nature communications (26-07-2022)“…The fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici causes wheat powdery mildew disease. Here, we study its spread and evolution by analyzing a global sample of 172…”
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A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-11-2022)“…Human history is written in both our genes and our languages. The extent to which our biological and linguistic histories are congruent has been the subject of…”
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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Wheat Lines in the Field Reveals Multiple Essential Biochemical Pathways Suppressed by Obligate Pathogens
Published in Frontiers in plant science (29-09-2021)“…Mildew and rust are the most devastating cereal pathogens, and in wheat they can cause up to 50% yield loss every year. Wheat lines containing resistance genes…”
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A survey of lineage‐specific genes in Triticeae reveals de novo gene evolution from genomic raw material
Published in Plant direct (01-03-2023)“…Diploid plant genomes typically contain ~35,000 genes, almost all belonging to highly conserved gene families. Only a small fraction are lineage‐specific,…”
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Transposable Element Populations Shed Light on the Evolutionary History of Wheat and the Complex Co‐Evolution of Autonomous and Non‐Autonomous Retrotransposons
Published in Genetics & genomics next (01-03-2022)“…Wheat has one of the largest and most repetitive genomes among major crop plants, containing over 85% transposable elements (TEs). TEs populate genomes much in…”
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Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-07-2022)“…Introgressions of chromosomal segments from related species into wheat are important sources of resistance against fungal diseases. The durability and…”
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A chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals a highly dynamic effector repertoire of wheat powdery mildew
Published in The New phytologist (01-03-2019)“…• Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (B.g. tritici) is the causal agent of the wheat powdery mildew disease. The highly fragmented B.g. tritici genome available…”
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A fictional field case study to understand the genetic basis of host-fungal pathogen interactions using the wheat powdery mildew-wheat pathosystem
Published in Journal of biological education (25-11-2022)“…Wheat powdery mildew is an important fungal pathogen of wheat with an obligatory biotrophic lifestyle (a parasite that can only develop on a living host). We…”
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