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Recent co-evolution of two pandemic plant diseases in a multi-hybrid swarm.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Dec 2023
Rahnama Mostafa, Condon Bradford, Ascari João P, Dupuis Julian R, Del Ponte Emerson M, Pedley Kerry F, Martinez Sebastián, Valent Barbara, Farman Mark L
Abstract excerpt
Most plant pathogens exhibit host specificity but when former barriers to infection break down, new diseases can rapidly emerge. For a number of fungal diseases, there is increasing evidence that hybridization plays a major role in driving host jumps. However, the relative contributions of existing variation versus new mutations in adapting to new host(s) is unclear. Here we reconstruct the evolutionary history...
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