SALLET , Erika

Sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) is a diploid species with an estimated genome size of 338 MB (Arumuganathan et al. 1991). It is mostly self-incompatible, and therefore has a heterozygous genetic background. We have sequenced and assembled the genome of the 'Regina' sweet cherry variety, which is a late blooming cultivar. Here we present a draft...

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) are plant parasites causing huge economic loss in the agricultural industry and affecting severely numerous developing countries. Control methods against these plant pests are sparse, the preferred one being the deployment of plant cultivars bearing resistance genes against Meloidogyne species. However,...

Domestication is an excellent model for studies ofadaptation because it involves recent and strong selectionon a few, identified traits [1–5]. Few studieshave focused on the domestication of fungi, withnotable exceptions [6–11], despite their importanceto bioindustry [12] and to a general understandingof adaptation in eukaryotes [5]....

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) are plant parasitic species that cause huge economic loss in the agricultural industry and affect the prosperity of communities in developing countries. Control methods against these plant pests are sparse and the current preferred method is deployment of plant cultivars bearing resistance genes against...

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) exhibit a diversity of reproductive modes ranging from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most widespread and devastating species to global agriculture are those that reproduce asexually, without meiosis. To disentangle this surprising parasitic success despite the absence...

This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession PSQE00000000.