Background: Black spot is one of the most severe and damaging diseases of garden roses. We present the draft genome sequence of its causative agent Diplocarpon rosae as a working tool to generate molecular markers and to ...

Retroviral vectors (RVVs) are the key players for somatic gene therapy. However, the large-scale production is very time- and cost-intensive due to the production in adherent cell lines and transient plasmid transfections. ...