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Studies of Verticillium-hop pathosystem

Our group has been studying the hop-Verticillium pathosystem in order to decipher hop resistance towards Verticillium albo-atrum, the main causative agent of the devastating hop wilt spread through European hop gardens, and to search for virulence-associated factors that might explain the increased aggressiveness of the V.albo-atrum lethal pathotype. Various research approaches have been employed in these studies, from genetic mapping of resistance gene(s) and QTLs, gene expression studies of compatible and incompatible interactions (proteomics and transcriptomics approach) to whole genome sequencing of six different V.albo-atrum pathotypes. A short overview of our work will be given in this presentation, with an emphasis on the gene(s) conferring resistance to hop wilt and on studies of V.albo-atrum virulence factors.

Humulus lupulus; Verticillium albo-atrum; virulence; pathotype; genetic mapping; QTLs

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