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Genetic Manipulation of the Plant Pathogen Ustilago maydis to Study Fungal Biology and Plant Microbe Interactions
Published on: September 30, 2016
Gene expression during Ustilago maydis diploid filamentous growth: EST library creation and analyses
Kimberly G Nugent1, Kristen Choffe, Barry J Saville
1Department of Botany, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ont., Canada L5L 1C6.
Abstract:
Ustilago maydis is an important model system for the plant pathogenic smut and rust fungi. Critical to the continued development of this model is establishing genomic resources. We have constructed a cDNA library from a forced diploid culture of U. maydis growing as filaments and have generated 7455 ESTs that are assembled into 3074 contiguous sequences. This represents as much as 46% of the coding capacity predicted for U. maydis. BLAST searches with a similarity cutoff of E
