#wheatblast — Public Fediverse posts

New post-doctoral research fellow position working with some of my colleagues/friends on wheat blast here in Wagga Wagga and Brazil via ANU, closes 2/9.

https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoctoral-fellow-canberra-act-act-australia-2dae9aa5-3ccb-4642-9b25-244862e5417b

#PlantPathology #WheatBlast #GetFediHired #Jobs

#WheatBlast is a devastating #disease caused by a fungal pathogen. Under #climatechange it is predicted to reduce global #wheat production by 69 million tons per year (13% decrease) by mid-century, exacerbating #foodsecurity problems: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01902-2 #grain #yields #fungi

For the first time, researchers modeled the #wheatblast spread under #climatechange. The #fungaldisease could reduce global wheat production by 13% until 2050, with dramatic results for global #foodsecurity: http://go.tum.de/301242

📷iStock/M.Belchenko

.@DrJohannaRhodes explores a #PLOSBiology study of the alarming evolutionary potential of a #pandemic clone of #WheatBlast, arguing the urgent need for genomic surveillance & pre-emptive breeding of resistant wheat. Primer: https://plos.io/3MLuPay Paper: https://plos.io/3zP6Gse

.@DrJohannaRhodes explores a #PLOSBiology study of the alarming evolutionary potential of a #pandemic clone of #WheatBlast, arguing the urgent need for genomic surveillance & pre-emptive breeding of resistant wheat. Primer: https://plos.io/3MLuPay Paper: https://plos.io/3zP6Gse

3/
#References-2

[3] Latorre, S.M., Were, V.M., Foster, A.J., et al., 2023. Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus. PLOS Biology 21, e3002052+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002052

[4] Callaway, E., 2023. Wheat disease’s global spread concerns researchers. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01043-8

#DOI #WheatBlast #PlantPests #AgriculturalResources

Figure 1 from [3] visually summarises the current status of spread https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002052#sec002

2/
#References-1

[1] Callaway, E., 2016. Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time. Nature 532, 421–422. https://doi.org/10.1038/532421a

[2] Islam, M.T., Croll, D., Gladieux, P., et al., 2016. Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae. BMC Biology 14, 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0309-7

#DOI #WheatBlast #PlantPests #AgriculturalResources

1/

2016, Bangladesh: "Asia’s first outbreak of a fungal disease that periodically devastates crops in #SouthAmerica" [1]
called "for intensive monitoring and surveillance of the #WheatBlast pathogen to limit its further spread" [2]

2023:
#Wheat "is threatened by a blast disease #pandemic". A wheat blast fungus lineage "recently spread to Asia and #Africa following two independent introductions from South America" [3]: threat for "wheat cultivation in some of the poorest parts of the world" [4]

Johanna Rhodes explores a #PLOSBiology study of the alarming evolutionary potential of a #pandemic clone of #WheatBlast, arguing the urgent need for genomic surveillance & pre-emptive breeding of resistant wheat. Primer: https://plos.io/3MLuPay Paper: https://plos.io/3zP6Gse