title: Hybridization speeds up the emergence and evolution of a new pathogen species.
abstract: Plant pathogens can evolve new host specificities and overcome host resistances over surprisingly few generations, a process that is greatly accelerated by agricultural practices. A new study provides a striking example in which the rapid emergence of a new pathogen via introgressive hybridization mirrors the evolution of a hybrid cereal crop.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Genomics group, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
authors.forename: Eva H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Stukenbrock
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000382:microbiology*
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