Special Issue "Genomics of Fungal Plant Pathogens".

In this Special Issue, Blandenet et al. [[22]] generated the membrane protein glycosyl-transferase BcCps1 deletion mutant in I B. cinerea i and elucidated the functions of BcCps1. In this Special Issue, 156 genome assemblies were used to construct a pan-genome of I P. oryzae i ; then, the mechanisms of genetic divergence and virulence variation of different sub-populations were elucidated. The pan-genome contained a total of 24,100 genes - twice that of the reference genome 70-15 strain, including 70% of core genes and 5% of strain-specific genes. Moreover, the genome sequence data of six other fungal plant pathogens were performed, and their genome sizes ranged from 38.25 Mb to 66 Mb (Table 1). [Extracted from the article]