Coexistence of Multiple Endemic and Pandemic Lineages of the Rice Blast Pathogen

Coexistence of Multiple Endemic and Pandemic Lineages of the Rice Blast Pathogen

ABSTRACT The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn., Pyricularia oryzae) is both a threat to global food security and a model for plant pathology. Molecular pathologists need an accurate understanding of the origins and line of descent of M. oryzae populations in order to identify the genetic an...

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Main Authors: Pierre Gladieux, Sébastien Ravel, Adrien Rieux, Sandrine Cros-Arteil, Henri Adreit, Joëlle Milazzo, Maud Thierry, Elisabeth Fournier, Ryohei Terauchi, Didier Tharreau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-05-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
clonality
deleterious mutations
indica rice
introgression
japonica rice
population genomics
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01806-17

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