Plant disease outbreaks are increasing and threaten food security for the vulnerable in many
areas of the world. Now a global human pandemic is threatening the health of millions on …

Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular receptors to detect pathogen attack and trigger
innate immune responses. Inside host cells, families of nucleotide-binding/leucine-rich …

Ancient DNA research has been revolutionized following development of next-generation
sequencing platforms. Although a number of such platforms have been applied to ancient …

Phytophthora infestans is a major oomycete plant pathogen, responsible for potato late
blight, which led to the Irish Potato Famine from 1845–1852. Since then, potatoes resistant …

The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source
of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although …

Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …

Interspecific hybridization is an important evolutionary phenomenon that generates genetic
variability in a population and fosters species diversity in nature. The availability of large …

We are entering a new era in plant pathology in which whole-genome sequences of many
individuals of a pathogen species are becoming readily available. Population genomics …

The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn., Pyricularia oryzae) is both a threat to global
food security and a model for plant pathology. Molecular pathologists need an accurate …

Background We evaluated the sensitivity of the D-statistic, a parsimony-like method widely
used to detect gene flow between closely related species. This method has been applied to …