Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus

To B or not to B: a tale of unorthodox chromosomes

(2018) Jessica L Soyer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Accessories Make the Outfit: Accessory Chromosomes and Other Dispensable DNA Regions in Plant-Pathogenic Fungi

(2018) Stefania Bertazzoni et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Threat of wheat blast to South Asia’s food security: An ex-ante analysis

(2018) Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb et al.   PLoS One

Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2018) Pierre Gladieux et al.   mBio

Pyricularia blast – a threat to wheat cultivation

(2018) M.M. Kohli et al.   Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding

Meiotic drive of female-inherited supernumerary chromosomes in a pathogenic fungus

(2018) Michael Habig et al.   eLife

Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptivek-mer weighting and repeat separation

(2017) Sergey Koren et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

PacBio Sequencing Reveals Transposable Elements as a Key Contributor to Genomic Plasticity and Virulence Variation in Magnaporthe oryzae

(2017) Jiandong Bao et al.   Molecular Plant

Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens

(2017) Mareike Möller et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Lolium Pathotype of Magnaporthe oryzae Recovered from a Single Blasted Wheat Plant in the United States

(2017) Mark Farman et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Evolution of the wheat blast fungus through functional losses in a host specificity determinant

(2017) Yoshihiro Inoue et al.   SCIENCE

The arms race between Magnaporthe oryzae and rice: Diversity and interaction of Avr and R genes

(2017) Bao-hua WANG et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

MGEScan: a Galaxy-based system for identifying retrotransposons in genomes

(2016) Hyungro Lee et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae

(2016) M. Tofazzal Islam et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Host specialization of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is associated with dynamic gain and loss of genes linked to transposable elements

(2016) Kentaro Yoshida et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Living apart together: crosstalk between the core and supernumerary genomes in a fungal plant pathogen

(2016) Adriaan Vanheule et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The 2NS Translocation from Confers Resistance to the Pathotype of

(2016) C.D. Cruz et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Transposons passively and actively contribute to evolution of the two-speed genome of a fungal pathogen

(2016) Luigi Faino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Integration of decoy domains derived from protein targets of pathogen effectors into plant immune receptors is widespread

(2016) Thomas Kroj et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

First Report of Wheat Blast Caused by Magnaporthe oryzae Pathotype triticum in Bangladesh

(2016) P. K. Malaker et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Function and evolution of Magnaporthe oryzae avirulence gene AvrPib responding to the rice blast resistance gene Pib

(2015) Shulin Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Global Genome and Transcriptome Analyses of Magnaporthe oryzae Epidemic Isolate 98-06 Uncover Novel Effectors and Pathogenicity-Related Genes, Revealing Gene Gain and Lose Dynamics in Genome Evolution

(2015) Yanhan Dong et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Repbase Update, a database of repetitive elements in eukaryotic genomes

(2015) Weidong Bao et al.   Mobile DNA

Novel Insights into Rice Innate Immunity Against Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens

(2014) Wende Liu et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Fusarium verticillioides SGE1 Is Required for Full Virulence and Regulates Expression of Protein Effector and Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Genes

(2014) Daren W. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Comprehensive variation discovery in single human genomes

(2014) Neil I Weisenfeld et al.   NATURE GENETICS

GenomeTools: A Comprehensive Software Library for Efficient Processing of Structured Genome Annotations

(2013) Gordon Gremme et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action

(2013) Martha C. Giraldo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The dispensable chromosome ofLeptosphaeria maculansshelters an effector gene conferring avirulence towardsBrassica rapa

(2013) Marie-Hélène Balesdent et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Breakage-fusion-bridge Cycles and Large Insertions Contribute to the Rapid Evolution of Accessory Chromosomes in a Fungal Pathogen

(2013) Daniel Croll et al.   PLoS Genetics

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

(2012) Alexander Dobin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Telomere-Targeted Retrotransposons in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae: Agents of Telomere Instability

(2012) J. H. Starnes et al.   GENETICS

Preparation of megabase-sized DNA from a variety of organisms using the nuclei method for advanced genomics research

(2012) Meiping Zhang et al.   Nature Protocols

Genome evolution in filamentous plant pathogens: why bigger can be better

(2012) Sylvain Raffaele et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Arms race co-evolution ofMagnaporthe oryzae AVR-Pikand ricePikgenes driven by their physical interactions

(2012) Hiroyuki Kanzaki et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Genome Structure and Reproductive Behaviour Influence the Evolutionary Potential of a Fungal Phytopathogen

(2012) Guillaume Daverdin et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

(2011) Thierry Rouxel et al.   Nature Communications

Finished Genome of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, and Stealth Pathogenesis

(2011) Stephen B. Goodwin et al.   PLoS Genetics

Multiple Translocation of the AVR-Pita Effector Gene among Chromosomes of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and Related Species

(2011) Izumi Chuma et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Scaffolding pre-assembled contigs using SSPACE

(2010) Marten Boetzer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Recent advances in rice blast effector research

(2010) Barbara Valent et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

AVR1-CO39 Is a Predominant Locus Governing the Broad Avirulence of Magnaporthe oryzae 2539 on Cultivated Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

(2010) Yan Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

(2010) Li-Jun Ma et al.   NATURE

TheMagnaporthe oryzaeAvirulence GeneAvrPiz-tEncodes a Predicted Secreted Protein That Triggers the Immunity in Rice Mediated by the Blast Resistance GenePiz-t

(2009) Wei Li et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Interaction Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Magnaporthe oryzae BAS1-4 as Biotrophy-Associated Secreted Proteins in Rice Blast Disease

(2009) G. Mosquera et al.   PLANT CELL

The Genome of Nectria haematococca: Contribution of Supernumerary Chromosomes to Gene Expansion

(2009) Jeffrey J. Coleman et al.   PLoS Genetics

RIPCAL: a tool for alignment-based analysis of repeat-induced point mutations in fungal genomic sequences

(2008) James K Hane et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

LTRharvest, an efficient and flexible software for de novo detection of LTR retrotransposons

(2008) David Ellinghaus et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Genome Organization and Evolution of theAVR-PitaAvirulence Gene Family in theMagnaporthe griseaSpecies Complex

(2008) Chang Hyun Khang et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Assessing the gene space in draft genomes

(2008) Genis Parra et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH