Harnessing natural genetic variation is an established alternative to artificial genetic
variation for investigating the molecular dialog between partners in plant pathosystems …

Septoria tritici blotch or Septoria leaf blotch has been used for long time, but leaf blotch is a
correct disease name. Moreover, Lb resistant gene is the correct name, but, not Stb gene. It …

Background Worldwide wheat production is under constant threat by fast-evolving fungal
pathogens. In the last decades, wheat breeding for disease resistance heavily relied on the …

Background Studying genomic variation in rapidly evolving pathogens potentially enables
identification of genes supporting their “core biology”, being present, functional and …

Pathogen populations differ in the amount of genetic diversity they contain. Populations
carrying higher genetic diversity are thought to have a greater evolutionary potential than …

Background Wheat is one of the world's most important cereal crops. However, the fungal
pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici can cause disease epidemics, leading to reduced yields. With …

Zymoseptoria tritici, the causal agent of Septoria tritici blotch, is one of Europe's most
damaging wheat pathogens, causing significant economic losses. Genetic resistance is a …

Successful host colonization by plant pathogens requires the circumvention of host defense
responses, frequently through sequence modifications in secreted pathogen proteins known …

Plants interact with a plethora of pathogenic microorganisms in nature. Pathogen-plant
interaction experiments focus mainly on single-strain infections, typically ignoring the …

The major resistance gene BvCR4 recently bred into sugar beet hybrids provides a high
level of resistance to Cercospora leaf spot caused by the fungal pathogen Cercospora …