Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

The fungal kingdom comprises some of the most devastating plant pathogens. Sequencing
the genomes of fungal pathogens has shown a remarkable variability in genome size and …

Endophytes are non-pathogenic microbes living inside plants. We asked whether
endophytic species were conserved in the agriculturally important plant genus Zea as it …

Plant pathogens can emerge in agricultural ecosystems through several mechanisms,
including host-tracking, host jumps, hybridization and horizontal gene transfer. High …

Fungal invasions are increasingly recognized as a significant component of global changes,
threatening ecosystem health and damaging food production. Invasive fungi also provide …

Evaluating the impact of plant domestication on the population structure of the associated
pathogens provides an opportunity to increase our understanding of how and why diseases …

Highly diverse communities of microbial symbionts occupy eukaryotic organisms, including
plants. While many well-studied symbionts may be characterized as either parasites or as …

Endophytic fungi represent diverse taxa that inhabit plant hosts without causing disease
symptoms. We used endophytic isolates of Fusarium verticillioides (Sacc.) Nirenberg to …

The basidiomycete smut fungus Ustilago hordei was previously shown to comprise isolates
that are avirulent on various barley host cultivars. Through genetic crosses we had revealed …

Aspergillus flavus, a fungal pathogen of animals and both wild and economically important
plants, is most recognized for producing aflatoxin, a cancer‐causing secondary metabolite …