Evaluating the pyrimidine metabolism in the plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans as a target to control the late blight disease

This project studied pyrimidine metabolism in Phytophthora infestans, not only because it has been positioned as a model organism to study oomycetes, it can be grown m vitro and in vivo in potatoes and tomatoes (and some Other hosts), it has a sequenced genome and there are available methods for its...