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

Deciphering Genome Content and Evolutionary Relationships of Isolates from the FungusMagnaporthe oryzaeAttacking Different Host Plants

(2015) Hélène Chiapello et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparative genomics identifies theMagnaporthe oryzaeavirulence effectorAvrPi9that triggersPi9-mediated blast resistance in rice

(2015) Jun Wu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2015) Shulin Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Structure Analysis Uncovers a Highly Diverse but Structurally Conserved Effector Family in Phytopathogenic Fungi

(2015) Karine de Guillen et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Structural basis of pathogen recognition by an integrated HMA domain in a plant NLR immune receptor

(2015) A Maqbool et al.   eLife

Sex or no sex: Evolutionary adaptation occurs regardless

(2014) Michael F. Seidl et al.   BIOESSAYS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Rapid evolution of avirulence genes in rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2014) Ju Huang et al.   BMC GENETICS

Gene Loss Rather Than Gene Gain Is Associated with a Host Jump from Monocots to Dicots in the Smut Fungus Melanopsichium pennsylvanicum

(2014) Rahul Sharma et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Effector Specialization in a Lineage of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen

(2014) S. Dong et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving the polyphyletic nature of Pyricularia (Pyriculariaceae)

(2014) S. Klaubauf et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors

(2013) Dario Cantu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Extensive chromosomal reshuffling drives evolution of virulence in an asexual pathogen

(2013) R. de Jonge et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph

(2013) Thomas Wicker et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action

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

South-East Asia is the center of origin, diversity and dispersion of the rice blast fungus,Magnaporthe oryzae

(2013) Dounia Saleh et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Rice Resistance Protein Pair RGA4/RGA5 Recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors AVR-Pia and AVR1-CO39 by Direct Binding

(2013) S. Cesari et al.   PLANT CELL

Deployment of theBurkholderia glumaetype III secretion system as an efficient tool for translocating pathogen effectors to monocot cells

(2013) Shailendra Sharma et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Coval: Improving Alignment Quality and Variant Calling Accuracy for Next-Generation Sequencing Data

(2013) Shunichi Kosugi et al.   PLoS One

Two distinct secretion systems facilitate tissue invasion by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2013) Martha C. Giraldo et al.   Nature Communications

Nonallelic homologous recombination between retrotransposable elements is a driver of de novo unbalanced translocations

(2012) C. Robberecht et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Sex at the origin: an Asian population of the rice blast fungusMagnaporthe oryzaereproduces sexually

(2012) DOUNIA SALEH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology

(2012) RALPH DEAN et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

(2012) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   NATURE

Effector-Mediated Suppression of Chitin-Triggered Immunity by Magnaporthe oryzae Is Necessary for Rice Blast Disease

(2012) T. A. Mentlak et al.   PLANT CELL

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

(2012) Hiroyuki Kanzaki et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Attack of the Clones

(2012) K. Kupferschmidt   SCIENCE

Large-Scale Gene Disruption in Magnaporthe oryzae Identifies MC69, a Secreted Protein Required for Infection by Monocot and Dicot Fungal Pathogens

(2012) Hiromasa Saitoh et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genome-wide Transcriptional Profiling of Appressorium Development by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2012) Darren M. Soanes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

Genome Evolution Following Host Jumps in the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Lineage

(2010) S. Raffaele et al.   SCIENCE

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans

(2009) Brian J. Haas et al.   NATURE

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Association Genetics Reveals Three Novel Avirulence Genes from the Rice Blast Fungal Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae

(2009) K. Yoshida et al.   PLANT CELL

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

(2009) G. Mosquera et al.   PLANT CELL

Taxonomic characterization of Pyricularia isolates from green foxtail and giant foxtail, wild foxtails in Japan

(2008) Akiko Yamagashira et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY

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

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