New insights into the evolution of host specificity of three Penicillium species and the pathogenicity of P. Italicum involving the infection of Valencia orange (Citrus sinensis)

Blue and green molds, the common phenotypes of post-harvest diseases in fruits, are mainly caused by Penicillium fungal species, including P.italicum, P.digitatum, and P.expansum.We sequenced and assembled the genome of a P.italicum strain, which contains 31,034,623 bp with 361 scaffolds and 627 contigs.The mechanisms underlying the evolution of ho

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Grazer Functional Roles, Induced Defenses, and Indirect Interactions: Implications for Eelgrass Restoration in San Francisco Bay

Understanding the individual and interactive roles of consumer species is more than academic when the host plant is a subject of intense conservation interest.In a mesocosm experiment, we compared effects of common invertebrate grazers in San Francisco Bay seagrass (Zostera marina, eelgrass) beds, finding that some species Hand Cream (a native opis

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