Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus

Sergio M. Latorre; Vincent M. Were; Andrew J. Foster; Thorsten Langner; Angus Malmgren; Adeline Harant; Soichiro Asuke; Sarai Reyes-Avila; Dipali Rani Gupta; Cassandra Jensen; Weibin Ma; Nur Uddin Mahmud; Md. Shabab Mehebub; Rabson M. Mulenga; Abu Naim Md. Muzahid; Sanjoy Kumar Paul; S. M. Fajle Rabby; Abdullah Al Mahbub Rahat; Lauren Ryder; Ram-Krishna Shrestha; Suwilanji Sichilima; Darren M. Soanes; Pawan Kumar Singh; Alison R. Bentley; Diane G. O. Saunders; Yukio Tosa; Daniel Croll; Kurt H. Lamour; Tofazzal Islam; Batiseba Tembo; Joe Win; Nicholas J. Talbot; Hernán A. Burbano; Sophien Kamoun

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Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus

Sergio M. Latorre ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent M. Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Vincent M. Were ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent M. Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Andrew J. Foster ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent M. Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Thorsten Langner ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio M. Latorre, Vincent M. Were, Andrew J. Foster, Thorsten Langner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Angus Malmgren,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Adeline Harant,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Soichiro Asuke,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Sarai Reyes-Avila,

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Dipali Rani Gupta,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Cassandra Jensen,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Weibin Ma,

Roles Resources

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Nur Uddin Mahmud,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Md. Shabab Mehebub,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Rabson M. Mulenga,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Mt. Makulu Central Research Station, Lusaka, Zambia
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Abu Naim Md. Muzahid,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Sanjoy Kumar Paul,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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S. M. Fajle Rabby,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Abdullah Al Mahbub Rahat,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Lauren Ryder,

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Ram-Krishna Shrestha,

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Suwilanji Sichilima,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Mt. Makulu Central Research Station, Lusaka, Zambia
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Darren M. Soanes,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Pawan Kumar Singh,

Roles Resources

Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico
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Alison R. Bentley,

Roles Resources

Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico
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Diane G. O. Saunders,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Yukio Tosa,

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Daniel Croll,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Kurt H. Lamour,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Tofazzal Islam,

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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Batiseba Tembo,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Mt. Makulu Central Research Station, Lusaka, Zambia
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Joe Win ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Joe.Win@tsl.ac.uk (JW); Nick.Talbot@tsl.ac.uk (NJT); h.burbano@ucl.ac.uk (HAB); Sophien.Kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK)

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9851-2404

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Nicholas J. Talbot ,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Joe.Win@tsl.ac.uk (JW); Nick.Talbot@tsl.ac.uk (NJT); h.burbano@ucl.ac.uk (HAB); Sophien.Kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK)

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Hernán A. Burbano ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Joe.Win@tsl.ac.uk (JW); Nick.Talbot@tsl.ac.uk (NJT); h.burbano@ucl.ac.uk (HAB); Sophien.Kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK)

Affiliation Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Sophien Kamoun

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Joe.Win@tsl.ac.uk (JW); Nick.Talbot@tsl.ac.uk (NJT); h.burbano@ucl.ac.uk (HAB); Sophien.Kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK)

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315

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Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus

Sergio M. Latorre,
Vincent M. Were,
Andrew J. Foster,
Thorsten Langner,
Angus Malmgren,
Adeline Harant,
Soichiro Asuke,
Sarai Reyes-Avila,
Dipali Rani Gupta,
Cassandra Jensen

Published: April 11, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002052

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