The Blast Fungus Decoded: Genomes in Flux

ABSTRACT Plant disease outbreaks caused by fungi are a chronic threat to global food security. A prime case is blast disease, which is caused by the ascomycete fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn. Pyricularia oryzae), which is infamous as the most destructive disease of the staple crop rice. However, des...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thorsten Langner, Aleksandra Białas, Sophien Kamoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-05-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00571-18