«Our study highlights the importance of taking advantage of the tremendous diversity of environmental microbes to improve our knowledge about the
evolution of microbial pathogens,» said author Domman.
With further improvements of the sequencing technology and increased throughput of the PromethION sequencer we aim to generate near - finished assemblies of large and repetitive plant genomes and cost - efficiently perform de novo sequencing of large
collections of microbial pathogens and the microbial communities that surround our crops.
However, increased temperatures were quickly followed by a loss of resistance to pathogenic disease and an increased
abundance of microbial pathogens in A. palmata [17], perhaps explaining the high incidence of disease following the thermal stress by either contagious or opportunistic pathogens [18].
«We are not saying that
any of these microbial pathogens cause Alzheimer's disease» in people, he notes.