Ep94 - Bioinformatics meets agriculture: Searching fungal DNA for genes behind fruit scabs

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Ep94 - Bioinformatics meets agriculture: Searching fungal DNA for genes behind fruit scabs

Behind The Science Podcast

1 hour 3 minutes 38 seconds

3 weeks ago

Ep94 - Bioinformatics meets agriculture: Searching fungal DNA for genes behind fruit scabs

Scab diseases make fruits like mango, citrus, and sweet potato unappealing and unmarketable, but what if we could decode the fungus behind them down to its DNA? In this episode of Behind The Science Podcast, Dr. Leilani Sumabat-Dacones talked about her team’s discovery of the genes that make the fungus Elsinoë such an effective plant pathogen. Using bioinformatics, they analyzed fungal genomes to identify effectors and toxins like elsinochrome and melanin that trigger scab formation.

📚Reference: Cequeña RC, Sumabat-Dacones L. 2024. Presence of elsinochrome and other putative effectors in select genomes of the plant pathogen Elsinoë spp. based on in silico analysis. SciEnggJ. 17(1):59–70.‌

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