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

2016; BioMed Central; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12915-016-0309-7

1741-7007

Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes, Antoine Persoons, Pallab Bhattacharjee, Md. Shaid Hossain, Dipali Rani Gupta, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, M. Golam Mahboob, Nicola Cook, Moin U. Salam, Musrat Zahan Surovy, Vanessa Bueno-Sancho, João Leodato Nunes Maciel, Antonio NhaniJúnior, Vanina L. Castroagudín, Juliana Teodora de Assis Reges, Paulo Cézar Ceresini, Sébastien Ravel, Ronny Kellner, Elisabeth Fournier, Didier Tharreau, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Bruce A. McDonald, Timothy Stitt, Daniel Swan, Nicholas J. Talbot, Diane G. O. Saunders, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun,

Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology

In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,000 hectares, about 16 % of the cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100 %. Within weeks of the onset of the epidemic, we performed transcriptome sequencing of symptomatic leaf samples collected directly from Bangladeshi fields. Reinoculation of seedlings with strains isolated from infected wheat grains showed wheat blast symptoms on leaves of wheat but not rice. Our phylogenomic and population genomic analyses revealed that the wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh was most likely caused by a wheat-infecting South American lineage of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Our findings suggest that genomic surveillance can be rapidly applied to monitor plant disease outbreaks and provide valuable information regarding the identity and origin of the infectious agent.