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Molecular diagnosis to discriminate pathogen and apathogen species of the hybrid Verticillium longisporum on the oilseed crop Brassica napus.

Tran VT, Braus-Stromeyer SA, Timpner C, Braus GH.SourceInstitut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr 8, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology.Appl Microbiol Biotechnol.2012 Nov 16. [Epub ahead of print]
The cruciferous fungal pathogen Verticillium longisporum represents an allodiploid hybrid with long spores and almost double the amount of nuclear DNA compared to other Verticillium species. V. longisporum evolved at least three times by hybridization. In Europe, virulent A1xD1 and avirulent A1xD3 h
PMID 23229565

Field testing and exploitation of genetically modified cassava with low-amylose or amylose-free starch in Indonesia.

Koehorst-van Putten HJ, Sudarmonowati E, Herman M, Pereira-Bertram IJ, Wolters AM, Meima H, de Vetten N, Raemakers CJ, Visser RG.SourceWageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Center, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands. herma.koehorst@wur.nl
Transgenic research.Transgenic Res.2012 Feb;21(1):39-50. doi: 10.1007/s11248-011-9507-9. Epub 2011 Apr 5.
The development and testing in the field of genetically modified -so called- orphan crops like cassava in tropical countries is still in its infancy, despite the fact that cassava is not only used for food and feed but is also an important industrial crop. As traditional breeding of cassava is diffi
PMID 21465166

Interploidal hybridization and mating patterns in the Sphagnum subsecundum complex.

Ricca M, Szövényi P, Temsch EM, Johnson MG, Shaw AJ.SourceDepartamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal. mdf7@duke.edu
Molecular ecology.Mol Ecol.2011 Aug;20(15):3202-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05170.x. Epub 2011 Jul 1.
Polyploidization is thought to result in instant sympatric speciation, but several cases of hybrid zones between one of the parental species and its polyploid derivative have been documented. Previous work showed that diploid Sphagnum lescurii is an allopolyploid derived from the haploids S. lescuri
PMID 21722226