Whyte, Barry James2015-10-292015-10-292006-02-06http://hdl.handle.net/10919/59798Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech, Colorado State University and Duke University Medical Center have developed a new method to determine gene function on a genome-wide scale in the fungal pathogen Alternaria brassicicola. A. brassicicola, which causes black spot disease in cultivated Brassica, is a destructive fungus that may lead to considerable leaf loss in economically important crops including canola, cabbage and broccoli.In CopyrightVirginia Bioinformatics InstitutePress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations