Agricultural ecosystems are composed of genetically depauperate populations of crop
plants grown at a high density and over large spatial scales, with the regional composition of …

Fungi are ideal model organisms for dissecting the genomic bases of adaptive divergence in
eukaryotes. They have simple morphologies and small genomes, occupy contrasting, well …

Apple (Malus× domestica) is the third important fruit in terms of production and consumption
worldwide. Apple scab caused by Venturia inaequalis is the most devastating disease of …

Landscape genetics has provided many insights into how heterogeneous landscape
features drive processes influencing spatial genetic variation in free‐living organisms. This …

Plant pathogens adapt readily to new crop varieties in agrosystems, and it is crucial to
understand the factors underlying the epidemic spread of new virulent strains if we are to …

The Venturia genus comprises fungal species that are pathogens on Rosaceae host plants,
including V. inaequalis and V. asperata on apple, V. aucupariae on sorbus and V. pirina on …

Pathogen species are experiencing strong joint demographic and selective events,
especially when they adapt to a new host, for example through overcoming plant resistance …

Host–parasite systems provide convincing examples of Red Queen co‐evolutionary
dynamics. Yet, a key process underscored in Van Valen's theory–that arms race dynamics …

The population genetic structure of 278 Venturia inaequalis isolates, collected from different
apple cultivars of eighteen different provinces in Iran, was investigated using 22 polymorphic …

Corynespora cassiicola is a destructive plant-pathogenic fungus causing widespread target
spot epidemics, including outbreaks on cotton, soybean, and tomato in the southeastern …