Nature Communications (Jul 2022)
Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade
- Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos,
- Epifanía Arango-Isaza,
- Tomohiro Ban,
- Chiara Barbieri,
- Salim Bourras,
- Christina Cowger,
- Paweł C. Czembor,
- Roi Ben-David,
- Amos Dinoor,
- Simon R. Ellwood,
- Johannes Graf,
- Koichi Hatta,
- Marcelo Helguera,
- Javier Sánchez-Martín,
- Bruce A. McDonald,
- Alexey I. Morgounov,
- Marion C. Müller,
- Vladimir Shamanin,
- Kentaro K. Shimizu,
- Taiki Yoshihira,
- Helen Zbinden,
- Beat Keller,
- Thomas Wicker
Affiliations
- Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Epifanía Arango-Isaza
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- Tomohiro Ban
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
- Chiara Barbieri
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- Salim Bourras
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Christina Cowger
- USDA-ARS Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
- Paweł C. Czembor
- Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - National Research Institute
- Roi Ben-David
- Department of Vegetables and Field crops, Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO-Volcani Center
- Amos Dinoor
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Simon R. Ellwood
- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University
- Johannes Graf
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Koichi Hatta
- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center Field Crop Research and Development, National Agricultural Research Organization, Sapporo
- Marcelo Helguera
- Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (CIAP), INTA
- Javier Sánchez-Martín
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Bruce A. McDonald
- Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich
- Alexey I. Morgounov
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Marion C. Müller
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Vladimir Shamanin
- Omsk State Agrarian University
- Kentaro K. Shimizu
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- Taiki Yoshihira
- Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu
- Helen Zbinden
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Beat Keller
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- Thomas Wicker
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31975-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
The fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici causes wheat powdery mildew disease. Here, Sotiropoulos et al. analyze a global sample of 172 mildew genomes, providing evidence that humans drove global spread of the pathogen throughout history and that mildew rapidly evolved through hybridization with local fungal strains.
