"Unraveling the Mysteries of Plant Pathogens: Cutting-Edge Whole Genome Sequencing Techniques and their Recent Advances"
Plant pathogens are microorganisms that cause diseases in plants, leading to severe economic losses and food insecurity worldwide. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of plant pathogens has become an essential tool in understanding their biology, evolution, and developing control strategies. In this blog, we will explore various methods and new techniques used for whole genome sequencing of plant pathogens . Methods for Whole Genome Sequencing of Plant Pathogens : Shotgun sequencing : In shotgun sequencing, the DNA is randomly fragmented, and the resulting fragments are sequenced. The sequencing reads are then assembled into contiguous sequences (contigs), and the contigs are further assembled into complete genome sequences. This method is widely used for sequencing bacterial genomes. Hybrid sequencing: Hybrid sequencing is a combination of short-read and long-read sequencing technologies. Short reads are generated by high-throughput sequencing platf...