Genomic surveillance urgently needed to control wheat blast pandemic spreading across continents

PLoS Biol. 2023 Apr 12;21(4):e3002090. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002090. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Abstract

A new study in PLOS Biology highlights the alarming potential of a pandemic clone of wheat blast disease to evolve fungicide-insensitive variants and argues the urgent need for genomic surveillance and preemptive breeding of resistant wheat.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Fungi
  • Genomics
  • Pandemics*
  • Plant Breeding
  • Triticum* / genetics