To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield
and quality of major food crops. Plant diseases threaten food security and are expected to …

Colletotrichum is a genus of major plant pathogens causing anthracnose diseases in many
plant crops worldwide. The genus comprises a highly diverse group of pathogens that infect …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

There is increasing difficulty in identifying new plant leaf diseases as a result of
environmental change. There is a need to identify the factors influencing the emergence and …

The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in
natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an …

Speciation with gene flow is greatly facilitated when traits subject to divergent selection also
contribute to non-random mating. Such traits have been called 'magic traits', which could be …

Hosts and their symbionts are involved in intimate physiological and ecological interactions.
The impact of these interactions on the evolution of each partner depends on the time‐scale …

Analyses of large-scale population structure of pathogens enable the identification of
migration patterns, diversity reservoirs or longevity of populations, the understanding of …

Common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is a keystone tree species throughout temperate Europe
whose future existence is threatened by an emerging invasive fungal disease. Ash dieback …

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 …