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Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health by Fisher, Matthew C., Alastruey-Izquierdo, Ana, Berman, Judith, Bicanic, Tihana, Bignell, Elaine M., Bowyer, Paul, Bromley, Michael, Brüggemann, Roger, Garber, Gary, Cornely, Oliver A., Gurr, Sarah. J., Harrison, Thomas S., Kuijper, Ed, Rhodes, Johanna, Sheppard, Donald C., Warris, Adilia, White, P. Lewis, Xu, Jianping, Zwaan, Bas, Verweij, Paul E.

“…Invasive fungal infections pose an important threat to public health and are an under-recognized component of antimicrobial resistance, an emerging crisis…”
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Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change by Chaloner, Thomas M., Gurr, Sarah J., Bebber, Daniel P.

“…Global food security is strongly determined by crop production. Climate change-induced losses to production can occur directly or indirectly, including via the…”
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Worldwide emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs challenges human health and food security by Fisher, Matthew C, Hawkins, Nichola J, Sanglard, Dominique, Gurr, Sarah J

“…The recent rate of emergence of pathogenic fungi that are resistant to the limited number of commonly used antifungal agents is unprecedented. The azoles, for…”
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global spread of crop pests and pathogens by Bebber, Daniel P, Holmes, Timothy, Gurr, Sarah J

“…AIM: To describe the patterns and trends in the spread of crop pests and pathogens around the world, and determine the socioeconomic, environmental and…”
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Against the grain: safeguarding rice from rice blast disease by Skamnioti, Pari, Gurr, Sarah J

“…Rice is the staple diet of more than three billion people. Yields must double over the next 40 years if we are to sustain the nutritional needs of the…”
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Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition by Bagchi, Robert, Gallery, Rachel E., Gripenberg, Sofia, Gurr, Sarah J., Narayan, Lakshmi, Addis, Claire E., Freckleton, Robert P., Lewis, Owen T.

“…Suppressing fungi in a tropical forest plant community lowers diversity by reducing the negative effects of density on seedling recruitment, and removing…”
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Geometry and evolution of the ecological niche in plant-associated microbes by Chaloner, Thomas M., Gurr, Sarah J., Bebber, Daniel P.

“…The ecological niche can be thought of as a volume in multidimensional space, where each dimension describes an abiotic condition or biotic resource required…”
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Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health by Fisher, Matthew C., Henk, Daniel. A., Briggs, Cheryl J., Brownstein, John S., Madoff, Lawrence C., McCraw, Sarah L., Gurr, Sarah J.

“…Pathogenic fungi are increasingly contributing to the global emerging disease burden, threatening biodiversity and imposing increasing costs on ecosystem…”
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Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world by Bebber, Daniel P., Ramotowski, Mark A. T., Gurr, Sarah J.

“…The extent to which crop pests and pathogens have altered their latitudinal ranges in response to climate change remains largely unknown. Now observations of…”
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Chitosan Mediates Germling Adhesion in Magnaporthe oryzae and Is Required for Surface Sensing and Germling Morphogenesis by Geoghegan, Ivey A, Gurr, Sarah J

“…The fungal cell wall not only plays a critical role in maintaining cellular integrity, but also forms the interface between fungi and their environment. The…”
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Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture by Fisher, Matthew C, Gurr, Sarah J, Cuomo, Christina A, Blehert, David S, Jin, Hailing, Stukenbrock, Eva H, Stajich, Jason E, Kahmann, Regine, Boone, Charles, Denning, David W, Gow, Neil A R, Klein, Bruce S, Kronstad, James W, Sheppard, Donald C, Taylor, John W, Wright, Gerard D, Heitman, Joseph, Casadevall, Arturo, Cowen, Leah E

“…The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity,…”
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Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens by Fones, Helen N, Bebber, Daniel P, Chaloner, Thomas M, Kay, William T, Steinberg, Gero, Gurr, Sarah J

“…Emerging fungal and oomycete pathogens infect staple calorie crops and economically important commodity crops, thereby posing a significant risk to global food…”
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Magnaporthe grisea Cutinase2 Mediates Appressorium Differentiation and Host Penetration and Is Required for Full Virulence by Skamnioti, Pari, Gurr, Sarah J

“…The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea infects its host by forming a specialized infection structure, the appressorium, on the plant leaf. The enormous…”
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Economic and physical determinants of the global distributions of crop pests and pathogens by Bebber, Daniel P, Holmes, Timothy, Smith, David, Gurr, Sarah J

“…Crop pests and pathogens pose a significant and growing threat to food security, but their geographical distributions are poorly understood. We present a…”
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A lipophilic cation protects crops against fungal pathogens by multiple modes of action by Steinberg, Gero, Schuster, Martin, Gurr, Sarah J., Schrader, Tina A., Schrader, Michael, Wood, Mark, Early, Andy, Kilaru, Sreedhar

“…The emerging resistance of crop pathogens to fungicides poses a challenge to food security and compels discovery of new antifungal compounds. Here, we show…”
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Zymoseptoria tritici white-collar complex integrates light, temperature and plant cues to initiate dimorphism and pathogenesis by Kilaru, Sreedhar, Fantozzi, Elena, Cannon, Stuart, Schuster, Martin, Chaloner, Thomas M., Guiu-Aragones, Celia, Gurr, Sarah J., Steinberg, Gero

“…Transitioning from spores to hyphae is pivotal to host invasion by the plant pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici . This dimorphic switch can be initiated by…”
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NOXious gases and the unpredictability of emerging plant pathogens under climate change by Fones, Helen N., Gurr, Sarah J.

“…Emerging pathogens of crops threaten food security and are increasingly problematic due to intensive agriculture and high volumes of trade and transport in…”
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Robust anti-oxidant defences in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae confer tolerance to the host oxidative burst by Samalova, Marketa, Meyer, Andreas J., Gurr, Sarah J., Fricker, Mark D.

“…Plants respond to pathogen attack via a rapid burst of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, ROS are also produced by fungal metabolism and are required for…”
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Validation of Reference Genes for Robust qRT-PCR Gene Expression Analysis in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae by Che Omar, Sarena, Bentley, Michael A, Morieri, Giulia, Preston, Gail M, Gurr, Sarah J

“…The rice blast fungus causes significant annual harvest losses. It also serves as a genetically-tractable model to study fungal ingress. Whilst pathogenicity…”
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Fungi, fungicide discovery and global food security by Steinberg, Gero, Gurr, Sarah J.

“…•Fungi pose the greatest biotic challenge to global food security.•Monocultures are ideal fungal pathogen feeding and breeding grounds.•Single target site…”
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