Phaeosphaeria nodorum is a major fungal pathogen of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and a member of the Dothideomycetes, a large fungal taxon that includes many important plant pathogens affecting all major crop plant families. The Dothideomycetes is a newly recognised major class of filamentous fungi that replaces the long-recognized loculoascomycetes. It includes the causal organisms of many economically important plant diseases. Phaeosphaeria nodorum is an experimentally tractable organism, which is easily handled in defined media. It was one of the first fungal pathogens to be genetically manipulated. Phaeosphaeria nodorum has been a model for fungicide development and emerged as a model for dothideomycete pathology.

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