@article {Islam059832, author = {M. Tofazzal Islam and Daniel Croll and Pierre Gladieux and Darren M. Soanes and Antoine Persoons and Pallab Bhattacharjee and Shaid Hossain and Dipali Rani Gupta and Md. Mahbubur Rahman and M. Golam Mahboob and Nicola Cook and Moin U. Salam and Vanessa Bueno Sancho and Jo{\~a}o Leodato Nunes Maciel and Antonio Nhani J{\'u}nior and Vanina Lili{\'a}n Castroagud{\'\i}n and Juliana T. de Assis Reges and Paulo Cezar Ceresini and Sebastien Ravel and Ronny Kellner and Elisabeth Fournier and Didier Tharreau and Marc-Henri Lebrun and Bruce A. McDonald and Timothy Stitt and Daniel Swan and Nicholas J. Talbot and Diane G.O. Saunders and Joe Win and Sophien Kamoun}, title = {Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae}, elocation-id = {059832}, year = {2016}, doi = {10.1101/059832}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {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 genomics analyses revealed that the outbreak was caused by a wheatLinfecting South American lineage of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. We show that genomic surveillance can be rapidly applied to monitor plant disease outbreaks and provide valuable information regarding the identity and origin of the infectious agent.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/19/059832}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/19/059832.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }