PY57CH04_Morris ARjats.cls July 18, 2019 12:43 Annual Review of Phytopathology Revisiting the Concept of Host Range of Plant Pathogens Cindy E. Morris and Benoît Moury Pathologie Végétale, INRA, 84140, Montfavet, France; email:
[email protected] Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 2019. 57:63–90 Keywords First published as a Review in Advance on evolutionary history, network analysis, cophylogeny, host jump, host May 13, 2019 specialization, generalism The Annual Review of Phytopathology is online at phyto.annualreviews.org Abstract https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-phyto-082718- Strategies to manage plant disease—from use of resistant varieties to crop 100034 rotation, elimination of reservoirs, landscape planning, surveillance, quar- Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 2019.57:63-90. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Copyright © 2019 by Annual Reviews. antine, risk modeling, and anticipation of disease emergences—all rely on All rights reserved knowledge of pathogen host range. However, awareness of the multitude of Access provided by b-on: Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) on 09/02/19. For personal use only. factors that influence the outcome of plant–microorganism interactions, the spatial and temporal dynamics of these factors, and the diversity of any given pathogen makes it increasingly challenging to define simple, all-purpose rules to circumscribe the host range of a pathogen. For bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, and viruses, we illustrate that host range is often an overlapping continuum—more so than the separation of discrete pathotypes—and that host jumps are common. By setting the mechanisms of plant–pathogen in- teractions into the scales of contemporary land use and Earth history, we propose a framework to assess the frontiers of host range for practical appli- cations and research on pathogen evolution.