1. Central American and Caribbean population history of the Pseudocercospora fijiensis fungus responsible for the latest worldwide pandemics on banana
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Nadia Lubin-Adjanoh, Catherine Abadie, Véronique Roussel, Jean Carlier, Yolande Chilin-Charles, Aude Gilabert, Stéphanie Robert, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (UMR PHIM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Département Systèmes Biologiques (Cirad-BIOS), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), doctoral fellowship from CIRAD and the French Occitanie region, post-doctoral fellowship from Agropolis Fondation (grant number 1504-004-E-Space)., Interreg IV Caribbean Programme (grant number 31409-Cabare), Prefecture de Guadeloupe (grant number FCR 2010/38), European Regional Development Fund and the Conseil Regional de Guadeloupe through the MALIN project., ANR-07-BDIV-0003,EMERFUNDIS,Comprendre les émergences de maladies fongiques de plantes : vers une estimation des risques liés aux changements globaux(2007), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro, and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)
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Musa (bananes) ,F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes ,Gene flow ,Génétique des populations ,Pseudocercospora ,Pseudocercospora fijiensis ,2. Zero hunger ,0303 health sciences ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,Ecology ,Emerging disease ,Caribbean Region ,Genetic structure ,Maladie des raies noires ,Martinique ,Genotype ,Population ,Context (language use) ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Population history ,Ascomycota ,Genetics ,Humans ,Surveillance épidémiologique ,education ,Pandemics ,Plant Diseases ,H20 - Maladies des plantes ,030304 developmental biology ,030306 microbiology ,Genetic Variation ,Outbreak ,Central America ,Musa ,Dispersal ,Maladie fongique ,biology.organism_classification ,[SDV.BV.PEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Phytopathology and phytopharmacy ,Biological dispersal ,Fungal plant pathogen - Abstract
International audience; Among the emerging fungal diseases threatening food security, the Pseudocercospora fijiensis fungus causing black leaf streak disease of banana is one of the most marked examples of a recent worldwide pandemic on a major crop. We assessed how this pathogen spread throughout the latest invaded region, i.e. Central America and the Caribbean. We retraced its population history combining detailed monitoring information on disease outbreaks and population genetic analyses based on large-scale sampling of P. fijiensis isolates from 121 locations throughout the region. The results first suggested that sexual reproduction was not lost during the P. fijiensis expansion, even in the insular Caribbean context, and a high level of genotypic diversity was maintained in all the populations studied. The population genetic structure of P. fijiensis and historical data showed that two disease waves swept northward and southward in all banana-producing countries in the study area from an initial entry point in Honduras, probably mainly through gradual stepwise spore dispersal. Serial founder events accompanying the northern and southern waves led to the establishment of two different genetic groups. A different population structure was detected on the latest invaded islands (Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe), revealing multiple introductions and admixture events that may have been partly due to human activities. The results of this study highlight the need to step up surveillance to limit the spread of other known emerging diseases of banana spread mainly by humans, but also to curb gene flow between established pathogen populations which could increase their evolutionary potential.
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- 2021
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