Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
BACKGROUND: In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,000 hectares, about 16 % of the cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100 %. Within weeks of the onset of the ep...
Paulo Cézar Ceresini, Vanina L. Castroagudín, Fabrício Ávila Rodrigues, Jonas Alberto Rios et al.
The devastating wheat blast disease first emerged in Brazil in 1985. The disease was restricted to South America until 2016, when a series of grain imports from Brazil led to a wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh. Wheat blast is caused by Pyricularia graminis-tritici ( Pygt), a species genetically di...
Paulo Cézar Ceresini, Vanina L. Castroagudín, Fabrício Ávila Rodrigues, Jonas Alberto Rios et al.
Wheat blast was first reported in Brazil in 1985. It spread rapidly across the wheat cropping areas of Brazil to become the most important biotic constraint on wheat production in the region. The alarming appearance of wheat blast in Bangladesh in 2016 greatly increased the urgency to understand thi...
Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner et al.
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 Africa following two independent introductions from South America. Through a combination of genome analyses and laboratory...
Dipali Rani Gupta, Claudia Sarai Reyes Avila, Joe Win, Darren M. Soanes et al.
The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is comprised of lineages that exhibit varying degrees of specificity on about 50 grass hosts, including rice, wheat, and barley. Reliable diagnostic tools are essential given that the pathogen has a propensity to jump to new hosts and spread to new geographic regi...
Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,741 hectares, about 16% of cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100%. Within weeks of the onset of the epidemic, we perform...
Vanina L. Castroagudín, Anderson Luiz Durante Danelli, Silvino Intra Moreira, Juliana Teodora de Assis Reges et al.
Abstract The wheat blast disease has been a serious constraint for wheat production in Latin America since the late 1980s. We used a population genomics analysis including 95 genome sequences of the wheat blast pathogen Pyricularia graminis-tritici ( Pygt ) and other Pyricularia species to show that...
Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner et al.
ABSTRACT Wheat, the most important food crop, is threatened by a blast disease pandemic. Here, we show that a clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus recently spread to Asia and Africa following two independent introductions from South America. Through a combination of genome analyses and laborator...
Batiseba Tembo, Nur Uddin Mahmud, Sanjoy Paul, Soichiro Asuke et al.
<strong>We report genotyping data for 186 <em>Magnaporthe oryzae</em> (Syn. <em>Pyricularia oryzae</em>) isolates from different geographical regions obtained using multiplex amplicon sequencing. The dataset consists of 84 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) selected from transcript sequences to ...
Daniel Croll
The emergence of agricultural pests is a severe threat to global food security. The recent wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh had devastating consequences for the country. More recently, a wheat blast outbreak in Zambia was assigned to the same tight group of genotypes originally introduced from Sou...
Daniel Croll
The emergence of agricultural pests is a severe threat to global food security. The recent wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh had devastating consequences for the country. More recently, a wheat blast outbreak in Zambia was assigned to the same tight group of genotypes originally introduced from Sou...
Dipali Rani Gupta, C. Sarai Reyes-Avila, Joe Win, Darren M. Soares et al.
ABSTRACT The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is comprised of lineages that exhibit varying degrees of specificity on about 50 grass hosts, including rice, wheat and barley. Reliable diagnostic tools are essential given that the pathogen has a propensity to jump to new hosts and spread to new geograp...
Daniel Croll
The emergence of agricultural pests is a severe threat to global food security. The recent wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh had devastating consequences for the country. More recently, a wheat blast outbreak in Zambia was assigned to the same tight group of genotypes originally introduced from Sou...
Batiseba Tembo, Nur Uddin Mahmud, Sanjoy Paul, Soichiro Asuke et al.
<strong>We report genotyping data for 186 <em>Magnaporthe oryzae</em> (Syn. <em>Pyricularia oryzae</em>) isolates from different geographical regions obtained using multiplex amplicon sequencing. The dataset consists of 84 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) selected from transcript sequences to ...
Md. Monirul Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
Table S1. Samples included in the phylogenomic and population genomic analyses. (XLSX 15 kb)