Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

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 …

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 The Environment for Tree Exploration (ETE) is a computational framework that
simplifies the reconstruction, analysis, and visualization of phylogenetic trees and multiple …

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 …

Phytopathogenic ascomycete fungi possess huge effector repertoires that are dominated by
hundreds of sequence-unrelated small secreted proteins. The molecular function of these …

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 …

Abstract Background Magnaporthe oryzae (anamorph Pyricularia oryzae) is the causal
agent of blast disease of Poaceae crops and their wild relatives. To understand the genetic …

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

Background Powdery mildews are biotrophic pathogenic fungi infecting a number of
economically important plants. The grass powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis, has become …