PLOS Biology#Wheat is threatened by a #BlastFungus pandemic; genome analyses allow tracking of the #pandemic strain, revealing potential to evolve #fungicide-insensitivity and recombination & African lineages @talbotlabTSL @hernanaburbano @KamounLab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3zP6Gse
Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus
Wheat, the most important food crop, is threatened by a blast disease pandemic. This study uses genome analyses to track the spread of a clonal lineage of the pandemic blast fungus and to reveal its potential to evolve fungicide-insensitive variants and sexually recombine with African lineages.