«We have discovered that the two more destructive pathogens share a
pattern of parallel changes in their core metabolic pathways that enables them to exploit more efficiently the nutrient resources available in
banana,» said Stergiopoulos, who along with bioinformatician Ti - Cheng Chang, led the effort to sequence and analyze the fungal genomes of eumusae
leaf spot and yellow sigatoka, comparing their findings with the previously sequenced black sigatoka genome sequence.