Origins of Host-Specific Populations of the Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in Crop Domestication With Subsequent Expansion of Pandemic Clones on Rice and Weeds of Rice

Abstract Rice, as a widely and intensively cultivated crop, should be a target for parasite host shifts and a source for shifts to co-occurring weeds. Magnaporthe oryzae, of the M. grisea species complex, is the most important fungal pathogen of rice, with a high degree of host specificity. On the b... View More