Review from the Whitehall lab published

A review that covers the role of heterochromatin in the phytopahtogen Zymoseptoria tritici has been published in Frontiers in Genetics‌

In a variety of fungal plant pathogens, the effector genes that are required for host colonization tend to be located within, or close to, heterochromatic regions of the genome enriched with transposable elements. It has been proposed that the heterochromatin environment silences effector genes in the absence of host and that dynamic chromatin remodelling facilitates their expression during infection. This review discusses this model in the context of Zymoseptoria tritici, the causative agent of Septoria tritici blotch (STB) which is one of the most economically important diseases of wheat world-wide. Progress in understanding the deposition and recognition of heterochromatic histone post translational modifications in Z. tritici and the role that heterochromatin plays in control of its genome plasticity and virulence is also covered

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