Investigating the role of HP1 and heterochromatin in the fungal phytopathogen, Zymoseptoria tritici

Here we investigate the roles of the Z. tritici HP1 ortholog, Cbx1, through the generation of deletion strains followed by RNA sequencing. We aim to compare the mutant transcriptomes of cbx1 and histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferase (kmt1) deletion strains to explore observed differences in virulence and in vitro phenotypes