Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus.

Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus.

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Wheat, one of the most important food crops, is threatened by a blast disease pandemic. Here, we show that a clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus recently spread to Asia and Africa following two independent introductions from South America. Through a combination of genome analyses and laboratory...

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Main Authors: Sergio M Latorre, Vincent M Were, Andrew J Foster, Thorsten Langner, Angus Malmgren, Adeline Harant, Soichiro Asuke, Sarai Reyes-Avila, Dipali Rani Gupta, Cassandra Jensen, Weibin Ma, Nur Uddin Mahmud, Md Shåbab Mehebub, Rabson M Mulenga, Abu Naim Md Muzahid, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, S M Fajle Rabby, Abdullah Al Mahbub Rahat, Lauren Ryder, Ram-Krishna Shrestha, Suwilanji Sichilima, Darren M Soanes, Pawan Kumar Singh, Alison R Bentley, Diane G O Saunders, Yukio Tosa, Daniel Croll, Kurt H Lamour, Tofazzal Islam, Batiseba Tembo, Joe Win, Nicholas J Talbot, Hernán A Burbano, Sophien Kamoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002052

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