“…Additionally, B. cinerea is a true haploid ascomycete that infects a wide range of evolutionarily distinct plant hosts, from bryophytes to eudicots. B. cinerea has elevated natural genetic variation that results in multiple major-effect polymorphisms in known virulence mechanisms, including the production of phytotoxic metabolites (Colmenares et al, 2002;Dalmais et al, 2011), enzymes that detoxify plant defense metabolites (Ferrari et al, 2003;Pedras et al, 2005Pedras et al, , 2007Pedras et al, , 2008Pedras et al, , 2009Pedras et al, , 2011Stefanato et al, 2009;Rowe et al, 2010), and the ability to degrade plant cell walls (Rowe and Kliebenstein, 2007;Schumacher et al, 2012Schumacher et al, , 2015Kumari et al, 2014). Because wild B. cinerea isolates have recombination and random mating, a population of isolates is a random intermixed sample of the diverse virulence mechanisms (Rowe and Kliebenstein, 2007;Kretschmer et al, 2009;Rowe et al, 2010;Kumari et al, 2014;Atwell et al, 2015;Corwin et al, 2016aCorwin et al, , 2016bZhang et al, 2016).…”