Genome analysis of the ubiquitous boxwood pathogen Pseudonectria foliicola: A small fungal genome with an increased cohort of genes associated with loss of virulence
<p>Boxwood plants are affected by many different diseases caused by fungi.  Some boxwood diseases are deadly and quickly kill the infected plants, but with others, the plant can survive and even thrive when infected.  The fungus that causes volutella blight is the most common of these weak boxwood pathogens.  Even the …