Evaluation of small ncRNAs as a possible epigenetic mechanism mediating the hemibiotrophic transition in the life cycle of Phytophthora infestans

Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight disease, is responsible for worldwide billionaire losses each year. This plant pathogenic oomycete is a hemibiotroph, meaning that in the early stages of infection it feeds on living host tissue and later in the infection cycle, it kills the ho...