Elucidating the similarity and diversity of pathogen effectors is critical to understand their
evolution across fungal phytopathogens. However, rapid divergence that diminishes …

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 …

Crop disease pandemics are often driven by asexually reproducing clonal lineages of plant
pathogens that reproduce asexually. How these clonal pathogens continuously adapt to …

Anthropocene marks the era when human activity is making a significant impact on earth, its
ecological and biogeographical systems. The domestication and intensification of …

Most plant pathogens exhibit host specificity but when former barriers to infection break
down, new diseases can rapidly emerge. For a number of fungal diseases, there is …

The fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici causes wheat powdery mildew disease. Here, we
study its spread and evolution by analyzing a global sample of 172 mildew genomes. Our …

Understanding the origins of variation in agricultural pathogens is of fundamental interest
and practical importance, especially for diseases that threaten food security. Fusarium …

Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae), is a filamentous ascomycete that causes a
major disease called blast on cereal crops, as well as on a wide variety of wild and …

Many species of fungal plant pathogens coexist as multiple lineages on the same host, but
the factors underlying the origin and maintenance of population structure remain largely …

Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and specialization
following host-jumps. However, the molecular processes associated with adaptive evolution …