Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae
Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren Soanes, Antoine Persoons, Pallab Bhattacharjee, Shaid Hossain, Dipali Gupta, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, M Golam Mahboob, Nicola Cook, Moin Salam, Vanessa Bueno Sancho, Joao Nunes Maciel, Antonio Nani, , Sophien Kamoun
The paper identifies a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae as the cause of a wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh using transcriptome sequencing and population genomics.
bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2016Plant Biology