Article
Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae
2016-06-19
Abstract excerpt
In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,741 hectares, about 16% of cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100%. Within weeks of the onset of the epidemic, we performed transcriptome sequencing of symptomatic leaf samples collected directly from Bangladeshi fields. Population genomi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f86387c8-c4e0-5479-91d0-2f73d153e436
- DOI
- 10.1101/059832
