The project to sequence the genomes of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora sojae started in 2002. The sequencing of Phytophthora ramorum represented the fastest sequencing of a newly emerged pathogen other than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus; Phytophthora ramorum was identified in 2000 and its draft sequence was complete by 2004. The work, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Research Initiative, and the Department of Energy, was carried out by an international team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
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