RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of <em>Magnaporthe oryzae</em>
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 059832
DO 10.1101/059832
A1 M. Tofazzal Islam
A1 Daniel Croll
A1 Pierre Gladieux
A1 Darren M. Soanes
A1 Antoine Persoons
A1 Pallab Bhattacharjee
A1 Shaid Hossain
A1 Dipali Rani Gupta
A1 Md. Mahbubur Rahman
A1 M. Golam Mahboob
A1 Nicola Cook
A1 Moin U. Salam
A1 Vanessa Bueno Sancho
A1 João Leodato Nunes Maciel
A1 Antonio Nhani Júnior
A1 Vanina Lilián Castroagudín
A1 Juliana T. de Assis Reges
A1 Paulo Cezar Ceresini
A1 Sebastien Ravel
A1 Ronny Kellner
A1 Elisabeth Fournier
A1 Didier Tharreau
A1 Marc-Henri Lebrun
A1 Bruce A. McDonald
A1 Timothy Stitt
A1 Daniel Swan
A1 Nicholas J. Talbot
A1 Diane G.O. Saunders
A1 Joe Win
A1 Sophien Kamoun
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/19/059832.abstract
AB 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.