TY  - JA
AU  - Latorre,S.M.
AU  - Were,V.M.
AU  - Foster,A.J.
AU  - Langner,T.
AU  - Malmgren,A.
AU  - Harant,A.
AU  - Soichiro Asuke
AU  - Reyes-Avila,S.
AU  - Gupta,D.R.
AU  - Jensen,C.
AU  - Weibin Ma
AU  - Mahmud,N.U.
AU  - Md. Shåbab Mehebub
AU  - Rabson M.Mulenga
AU  - Abu Naim Md. Muzahid
AU  - Sanjoy Kumar Paul
AU  - S. M. Fajle Rabby
AU  - Abdullah Al Mahbub Rahat
AU  - Ryder,L.
AU  - Ram-Krishna Shrestha
AU  - Sichilima,S.
AU  - Soanes,D.M.
AU  - Pawan Kumar Singh
AU  - Bentley,A.R.
AU  - Saunders,D.G.O.
AU  - Yukio Tosa
AU  - Croll,D.
AU  - Lamour,K.
AU  - Islam,M.T.
AU  - Tembo,B.
AU  - Win,J.
AU  - Talbot,N.J.
AU  - Burbano,H.A.
AU  - Kamoun,S
TI  - Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus
SN  - 1544-9173
PY  - 2023///
CY  - San Francisco, CA (USA)
PB  - Public Library of Science
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Genomics
KW  - Pandemics
KW  - Wheat
KW  - Blasts (of plants)
KW  - Disease resistance
N1  - Peer review; Open Access
N2  - 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 experiments, we show that the decade-old blast pandemic lineage can be controlled by the Rmg8 disease resistance gene and is sensitive to strobilurin fungicides. However, we also highlight the potential of the pandemic clone to evolve fungicide-insensitive variants and sexually recombine with African lineages. This underscores the urgent need for genomic surveillance to track and mitigate the spread of wheat blast outside of South America and to guide preemptive wheat breeding for blast resistance
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22584
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002052
T2  - PLoS biology
ER  -