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Comment
. 2019 Feb;20(2):173-179.
doi: 10.1111/mpp.12778.

Pyricularia graminis-tritici is not the correct species name for the wheat blast fungus: response to Ceresini et al. (MPP 20:2)

Barbara Valent  1 , Mark Farman  2 , Yukio Tosa  3 , Dominik Begerow  4 , Elisabeth Fournier  5 , Pierre Gladieux  5 , M Tofazzal Islam  6 , Sophien Kamoun  7 , Martin Kemler  4 , Linda M Kohn  8 , Marc-Henri Lebrun  9 , Jason E Stajich  10 , Nicholas J Talbot  7 , Ryohei Terauchi  11   12 , Didier Tharreau  13   14 , Ning Zhang  15
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Pyricularia graminis-tritici is not the correct species name for the wheat blast fungus: response to Ceresini et al. (MPP 20:2)

Barbara Valent et al. Mol Plant Pathol. 2019 Feb.
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Pyricularia oryzae is a single species with major crop‐adapted lineages. (A) Total‐evidence neighbour‐joining distance tree using pairwise distances (number of differences per kilobase of uniquely alignable DNA) calculated from the analysis of pairwise BLAST alignments between repeat‐masked genomes. Only nodes with a confidence of >80% are labelled. Ovals indicate lineages. Branch lengths are proportional to genetic distances between strains. In general, strains isolated from the major crops are associated with host genus‐specific lineages that are conserved worldwide and over time. Shown are 17 Oryza strains from eight countries (1948–2009); eight Setaria strains from three countries (1975–2005); eight Eleusine strains in two known lineages (Tanaka et al., 2009) from six countries (1976–2012); 17 Lolium/Festuca strains from three countries (1996–2005); and 20 Triticum strains from the four countries with endemic wheat blast (1988–2016). Strain names are colour coded to indicate host of isolation, including three Brazilian Lolium strains isolated from wheat or oats, one US Lolium strain isolated from wheat, two Paraguayan Triticum or Lolium strains isolated from Bromus spp. in a heavily infected wheat field, and three Thai Oryza strains isolated from barley. (B) Neighbour‐joining tree showing the genetic distances separating P. oryzae (same relative distances as tree in A), P. grisea and P. pennisetigena. Distances are in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) per kilobase. (A) and (B) are reproduced from figs 3 and S4, respectively, from Gladieux et al. (2018). [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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