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From Keeping Up With The Plant Destroyers by PlantVillage

m fungi. Whether this took place hundreds million years ago or more recently is not yet resolved. But as Tom likes to say “oomycetes are 99% not fungi”. How this phenomenon …ex organisms like oomycetes and fungi. Nonetheless, Tom Richard and colleagues at Exeter University reported that oomycetes have at some point in their evolution acquired genes from fungi. Whether this took place hundreds million years ago or more recently is not yet resolved. But as Tom likes to say “oomycetes are 99% not fungi”. How this phenomenon has contributed to the evolution of oomycetes into destructive plant pathogens …

From Keeping Up With The Plant Destroyers by PlantVillage

s are not fish, and oomycetes are not fungi.” In fact, oomycetes turned out to have unexpected marine cousins in brown algae (kelp) and diatoms in a grouping known as the heterokonts. Oomycetes form a very deep branch in the tree of life and may have evolved from marine para… biologists like to quip “bats are not birds, dolphins are not fish, and oomycetes are not fungi.” In fact, oomycetes turned out to have unexpected marine cousins in brown algae (kelp) and diatoms in a grouping known as the heterokonts. Oomycetes form a very deep branch in the tree of life and may have evolved from marine parasitic mi…