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...
Pierre Gladieux, Bradford Condon, Sébastien Ravel, Darren M. Soanes et al.
ABSTRACT Delineating species and epidemic lineages in fungal plant pathogens is critical to our understanding of disease emergence and the structure of fungal biodiversity and also informs international regulatory decisions. Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae ) is a multihost pathogen that ...
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...
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...
Darren M. Soanes, Lauren S. Ryder, Tofazzal Islam, Nicholas J. Talbot
Genomic DNA from nineteen isolates of <i>Magnaporthe oryzae</i> sampled from barley, wheat and torpedo grass in Bangladesh were sequenced using Illumina HiSeq 2500 producing 125 base paired-end reads. Reads were assembled ‘de novo’ using Spades.
Pierre Gladieux, Bradford Condon, Sébastien Ravel, Darren M. Soanes et al.
Abstract Delineating species and epidemic lineages in fungal plant pathogens is critical to our understanding of disease emergence and the structure of fungal biodiversity, and also informs international regulatory decisions. Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae) is a multi-host pathogen that...
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)
M. Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
Table S2. Short read coverage of Magnaporthe oryzae and wheat transcriptomes in Bangladeshi samples. (PDF 66 kb)
M. Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
Table S2. Short read coverage of Magnaporthe oryzae and wheat transcriptomes in Bangladeshi samples. (PDF 66 kb)