Comparative genomics reveals cotton‐specific virulence factors in flexible genomic regions in Verticillium dahliae and evidence of horizontal gene transfer from Fusarium

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Verticillium dahliae has a broad host range (can cause infectious disease in many plants) but some isolates are noticeably more aggressive on a particular host. We show for the first time that the cotton-specific virulence factors in flexible genomic regions in V. dahliae transferred from Fusarium, which contributes to the adaptation of V. dahliae to cotton.

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