Article
Recently expanded clonal lineages of the rice blast fungus display distinct patterns of presence/absence of effector genes
2020-01-10
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Understanding the mechanisms and timescales of plant pathogen outbreaks requires a detailed genome-scale analysis of their population history. The fungus Magnaporthe (Syn. Pyricularia ) oryzae —the causal agent of blast disease of cereals— is among the most destructive plant pathogens to world agriculture and a major threat to the production of rice, wheat and other cereals. Although M. or...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 24305504-c72e-5517-b7ae-696d566b8061
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.01.09.900308
