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Plant scientists are getting their first look at the genome of the organism that causes sudden oak death. Researchers this week unveiled the sequence of Phytophthora ramorum, a funguslike killer that is spreading across North America (Science, 26 March, p. 1959). The $4 million effort, which also included the soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae, was carried out by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) in Blacksburg. One payoff will be better ways to track the pathogen, predicts VBI's Brett Tyler. The sequence will also help reveal whether the two mating types of P. ramorum are sexually active in North America, says Matteo Garbelotto of the University of California, Berkeley. That could make P. ramorum even more virulent.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)