S. M. Latorre

The paper identifies a tailocin, a phage-derived element, used by Pseudomonas spp. to suppress competitors in metapopulations, showing its persistence over 170 years.

The paper uses historical A. thaliana genomes and genetic knowledge to show a decrease in stomatal density over time linked to climate change.

The paper identifies wild grass hosts of the blast fungus Magnaporthe in Germany, showing their potential to infect cereal crops and spread disease.

The paper identifies a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus that originated in South America and spread to Asia and Africa, showing it can be controlled by Rmg8 but may develop fungicide resistance and recombine with African lineages.

The paper studies how modern agriculture has driven the evolution and range expansion of common waterhemp over the last two centuries through genome analysis of historical and present-day samples.

This study identifies multiple introduction sources of North American Arabidopsis thaliana from Eurasia using genomic data and finds evidence of admixture increasing haplotype diversity and immune-related selection.

This study uses museum specimens to generate whole-genome phylogenies of extinct Oryctes beetles, revealing taxonomic misclassifications and independent colonization events on the Mascarene Islands.

The paper reconstructs the genetic history of the rice blast fungus, identifying three clonal lineages with distinct effector gene presence/absence patterns associated with rice blast pandemics.