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 …

A diversity of plant-associated organisms secrete effectors—proteins and metabolites that
modulate plant physiology to favor host infection and colonization. However, effectors can …

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

Abstract 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 …

Abstract Background Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa zea are major caterpillar pests
of Old and New World agriculture, respectively. Both, particularly H. armigera, are extremely …

Wheat blast first emerged in Brazil in the mid-1980s and has recently caused heavy crop
losses in Asia. Here we show how this devastating pathogen evolved in Brazil. Genetic …

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 …

A subset of plant intracellular NLR immune receptors detect effector proteins, secreted by
phytopathogens to promote infection, through unconventional integrated domains which …

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 …

Background The gene content of a species largely governs its ecological interactions and
adaptive potential. A species is therefore defined by both core genes shared between all …