Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · Oct 25 1 / 2
We've carried out sampling across New Zealand's main kiwifruit growing regions, focusing on commercial monocultures of green-fleshed 'Hayward' and yellow-fleshed 'Zesy002' - our Psa3 population has a star-shaped core SNP phylogeny, indicative of rapid expansion from a clonal origin 🌟
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While effector loss is rare in commercial orchards, we observed the loss of the effector HopF1c, mediated by the integration of (increasingly widespread) copper resistance-encoding ICEs!