Wheat blast disease: danger on the move

CD Cruz, B Valent - Tropical Plant Pathology, 2017‏ - Springer
Wheat blast is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum pathotype (MoT). The
potential for wheat blast to cause widespread losses demands immediate action to …

Wheat blast: past, present, and future

PC Ceresini, VL Castroagudín… - Annual Review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
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 …

Evolution of the wheat blast fungus through functional losses in a host specificity determinant

Y Inoue, TTP Vy, K Yoshida, H Asano, C Mitsuoka… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
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 …

Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

P Gladieux, B Condon, S Ravel, D Soanes, JLN Maciel… - MBio, 2018‏ - journals.asm.org
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 …

Efficacy of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Bacillus cereus YN917 for Biocontrol of Rice Blast

H Zhou, Z Ren, X Zu, X Yu, H Zhu, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Bacillus cereus YN917, obtained from a rice leaf with remarkable antifungal activity against
Magnaporthe oryzae, was reported in our previous study. The present study deciphered the …

Maintenance of divergent lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Pyricularia oryzae through niche separation, loss of sex and post-mating genetic incompatibilities

M Thierry, F Charriat, J Milazzo, H Adreit… - PLoS …, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
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 …

The arms race between Magnaporthe oryzae and rice: Diversity and interaction of Avr and R genes

B Wang, DJ Ebbole, Z Wang - Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Rice blast disease, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, threatens global food security. The rice
blast pathosystem is a longstanding model system for understanding plant-microbe …

Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus

Z Peng, E Oliveira-Garcia, G Lin, Y Hu, M Dalby… - PLoS …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Newly emerged wheat blast disease is a serious threat to global wheat production. Wheat
blast is caused by a distinct, exceptionally diverse lineage of the fungus causing rice blast …

Wheat blast: from its origins in South America to its emergence as a global threat

PC Ceresini, VL Castroagudín… - Molecular Plant …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wheat blast was first reported in Brazil in 1985. It spread rapidly across the wheat crop**
areas of Brazil to become the most important biotic constraint on wheat production in the …

Wheat blast: a new threat to food security

MT Islam, DR Gupta, A Hossain, KK Roy, X He… - Phytopathology …, 2020‏ - Springer
Wheat blast, caused by the Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum (MoT) lineage (synonym
Pyricularia oryzae Triticum lineage), is a destructive disease in South America and …