Winter wheat protection technology is aimed at preventing the mass spread of harmful biota and possibility its rapid restriction. Therewith, main choice pesticides their timely use precisely period when organisms are in a sensitive stage to protective products, plants phase forming laying productivity elements. The purpose study examine effectiveness proposed compositions chemical preparations ...

Magnaporthaceae is a family of ascomycetes that includes three fungi of great economic importance: Magnaporthe oryzae, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, and Magnaporthe poae. These three fungi cause widespread disease and loss in cereal and grass crops, including rice blast disease (M. oryzae), take-all disease in wheat and other grasses (G. graminis), and summer patch disease in turf grass...

We examine the contribution of next generation sequencing (NGS) to our understanding of the interaction between the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici and its wheat host. Recent interspecific whole genome comparisons between Z. tritici and its close relatives provide evidence that Z. tritici has undergone strong adaptive evolution, which is attributed to specialization by Z. tritici on wheat....

The hemibiotrophic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici causes Septoria tritici blotch disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum). Pathogen reproduction on wheat occurs without cell penetration, suggesting that dynamic and intimate intercellular communication occurs between fungus and plant throughout the disease cycle. We used deep RNA sequencing and metabolomics to investigate the physiology of plant and pa...

An ‘avatar’ is a local population of a species in a local community; it is the local embodiment of the group – the tangible representative that interacts with avatars of other species (Damuth, 1985). In this issue of New Phytologist, Anderson & Johnson (pp. 533–540) report on a striking story of avatars evolving under the influence of one another in diverging communities. Previously, Anderson &...