Jigisha Jigisha

The paper tracks the evolutionary trajectory of a recently emerged hybrid plant pathogen, showing it persists as an independent lineage with genomic changes shaped by selection and ecological isolation.

The paper identifies how two wheat resistance alleles, Pm3d and Pm3e, recognize structurally diverse mildew effectors to confer broad-spectrum resistance.

This study analyzes the population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe, revealing population structure linked to wind patterns and identifying loci under selection, including fungicide targets and avirulence genes.

In 415 European and Mediterranean wheat powdery mildew genomes, fungicide-resistance mutations rose over time with regional patterns; demethylation-inhibitor resistance at cyp51 emerged at least twice independently and spread.