Maël Baudin, Marie Le Naour-Vernet, Pierre Gladieux, Didier Tharreau, Marc-Henri Lebrun, Karine Lambou, Marie Leys, Elisabeth Fournier, Stella Césari, Thomas Kroj
UNLABELLED: Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae), is a filamentous ascomycete that causes a major disease called blast on cereal crops, as well as on a wide variety of wild and cultivated grasses. Blast diseases have a tremendous impact worldwide particularly on rice and on wheat, where the disease emerged in South America in the 1980s, before spreading to Asia and Africa. Its economic importance, coupled with its amenability to molecular and genetic manipulation, have inspired extensive research efforts aiming at understanding its biology and evolution...
April 2024: Molecular Plant Pathology