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Origin and domestication of the fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola via sympatric speciation.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Feb 2007
Stukenbrock Eva H, Banke Søren, Javan-Nikkhah Mohammad, McDonald Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
The Fertile Crescent represents the center of origin and earliest known place of domestication for many cereal crops. During the transition from wild grasses to domesticated cereals, many host-specialized pathogen species are thought to have emerged. A sister population of the wheat-adapted pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola was identified on wild grasses collected in northwest Iran. Isolates of this wild grass...
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