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

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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Published in:	PLoS Biology
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
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10089362/?tool=EBI