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Feurtey, A., Lorrain, C., McDonald, M. C., Milgate, A., Solomon, P., Warren, R., … Croll, D. (2023). A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen. Nature Communications.
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Feurtey, Alice, Cécile Lorrain, Megan C. McDonald, A. Milgate, P. Solomon, R. Warren, Guido Puccetti, et al. “A Thousand-Genome Panel Retraces the Global Spread and Adaptation of a Major Fungal Crop Pathogen.” Nature Communications (2023).
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Feurtey, Alice, et al. “A Thousand-Genome Panel Retraces the Global Spread and Adaptation of a Major Fungal Crop Pathogen.” Nature Communications, 2023.
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@article{alice2023a,
title = {A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen},
year = {2023},
journal = {Nature Communications},
author = {Feurtey, Alice and Lorrain, Cécile and McDonald, Megan C. and Milgate, A. and Solomon, P. and Warren, R. and Puccetti, Guido and Scalliet, G. and Torriani, S. and Gout, L. and Marcel, T. and Suffert, F. and Alassimone, Julien and Lipzen, A. and Yoshinaga, Y. and Daum, Christopher and Barry, K. and Grigoriev, I. and Goodwin, S. B. and Genissel, A. and Seidl, Michael F. and Stukenbrock, E. and Lebrun, M. and Kema, G. and McDonald, B. and Croll, D.}
}
Human activity impacts the evolutionary trajectories of many species worldwide. Global trade of agricultural goods contributes to the dispersal of pathogens reshaping their genetic makeup and providing opportunities for virulence gains. Understanding how pathogens surmount control strategies and cope with new climates is crucial to predicting the future impact of crop pathogens. Here, we address this by assembling a global thousand-genome panel of Zymoseptoria tritici , a major fungal pathogen of wheat reported in all production areas worldwide. We identify the global invasion routes and ongoing genetic exchange of the pathogen among wheat-growing regions. We find that the global expansion was accompanied by increased activity of transposable elements and weakened genomic defenses. Finally, we find significant standing variation for adaptation to new climates encountered during the global spread. Our work shows how large population genomic panels enable deep insights into the evolutionary trajectory of a major crop pathogen. Zymoseptoria tritici is an important fungal pathogen of wheat which has spread globally. Here, the authors perform genomic analyses on a collection of ~1100 Z. tritici samples from 42 countries to describe its global spread and elucidate mechanisms of adaptation to different environmental conditions.