Highlights•Investigations of climate change impacts still concentrate on few crops and
pathogens.•Climate model ensembles can quantify some uncertainty in crop disease …

Brassica napus is an economically important crop across different continents including
temperate and subtropical regions in Europe, Canada, South Asia, China and Australia. Its …

Establishing a portable diagnostic method for identifying plant pathogens is essential to
prevent the spread of plant disease, especially in field and customs inspections …

Over the past decades, the economic benefit has prompted farmers to grow oilseed rape
(OSR). Consequently, the global OSR production increased considerably, and today the …

Blackleg disease, caused by the ascomycete fungal pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans, is a
devastating disease of canola (Brassica napus) in Australia, Canada and Europe. Although …

Phoma stem canker (blackleg) is one of the most important diseases of winter oilseed rape
(Brassica napus) worldwide and is caused by a complex that comprises at least two species …

BACKGROUND Phoma stem canker is an economically important disease of oilseed rape,
caused by two co‐existing fungal pathogen species, Leptosphaeria maculans (Plenodomus …

Phoma stem canker of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is a globally important disease that is
caused by the sibling ascomycete species Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa. Sixty …

Recent advances in genomics have led to a greater understanding of blackleg disease of
canola, caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans. Genome sequences are available …

Blackleg disease caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans is the most important
disease of canola worldwide. The impact of this disease on the development of the …