“…While studied explicitly to understand its ability to cause disease in rice, M. grisea has emerged as a tractable model to understand the biology of the wheat-infecting variety of this fungus which has tremendous potential to impact wheat production in North America, Europe, and Asia (Pieck et al 2017). Finally, fungi in the genera Fusarium produce toxins and cause disease in plants, animals, and even humans, are useful in industrial biotechnology, and are even used directly in producing food for humans (Ma et al 2013). Fusaria, including F. graminearum, F. oxysporum, F. verticillioides, F. moniliformis , and F. solani have been studied with a number of techniques including molecular genetic map construction (Jurgenson et al 2002), electrophoretic karyotyping (Migheli et al 1993; VanEtten et al 1998), and ultimately by comparative genomic analysis (Ma et al 2010; Sperschneider et al 2015).…”