Molecular taxonomy of phytopathogenic fungi: a case study in Peronospora.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inappropriate taxon definitions may have severe consequences in many areas. For instance, biologically sensible species delimitation of plant pathogens is crucial for measures such as plant protection or biological control and for comparative studies involving model organisms. However, delimiting species is challenging in the case of organisms for which often only molecular data are available, such as prokaryotes, fungi, and many unicellular eukaryotes. Even in the case of organisms with well-established morphological characteristics, molecular taxonomy is often necessary to emend current taxonomic concepts and to analyze DNA sequences directly sampled from the environment. Typically, for this purpose clustering approaches to delineate molecular operational taxonomic uni

SUBMITTER: Goker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2712678 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature