Traditional agrosystems, where humans, crops and microbes have coevolved over long periods, can serve as models to understand the ecoevolutionary determinants of disease dynamics and help the engineering of durably resistant agrosystems. Here, we investigated the genetic and phenotypic relationship between rice ( Oryza sativa ) landraces and their rice blast pathogen ( Pyricularia oryzae ) in the traditional Yuanyang terraces...

Sexual reproduction in Ascomycetes is well described in several model organisms such as Neurospora crassa or Podospora anserina . Deciphering the biological process of sexual reproduction (from the recognition between compatible partners to the formation of zygote) can be a major advantage to better control sexually reproducing pathogenic fungi. In Pyricularia oryzae , the fungal pathogen causing blast diseases on several Poac...