Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Historical outbreaks of #CoffeeWilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus https://phys.org/news/2024-12-historical-outbreaks-coffee-wilt-disease.html
Horizontal transfers between fungal #Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of #coffee wilt disease: Lily Peck et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002480
"The #fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease."
Historical outbreaks of coffee wilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus
The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease. Lily Peck of Imperial College London, U.K., reports these new findings in a study published December 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.