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A Reevaluation of Phylogenomic Data Reveals that Current Understanding in Wheat Blast Population Biology and Epidemiology Is Obfuscated by Oversights in Population Sampling
The recent appearance of wheat blast (Pyricularia oryzae Triticum lineage [PoT]) in Bangladesh and Zambia underscores the need to understand its population biology and epidemiology to prevent widespread outbreaks. Previous studies primarily focused on Brazilian isolates. However, re-analysis of previous studies on Brazilian isolates revealed four new P. oryzae lineages on grass hosts.
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