Genomic surveillance urgently needed to control wheat blast pandemic spreading across continents.
A new study in PLOS Biology highlights the alarming potential of a pandemic clone of wheat blast disease to evolve fungicide-insensitive variants and argues the urgent need for genomic surveillance and preemptive breeding of resistant wheat.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-04-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002090 |