AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION
DF, PB, VH conceived experiments; JC, EM, PD, AL, AB and VH performed field sampling and molecular diagnosis; PB characterized fitness traits in D. solani and D. dianthicola ; PB, KR and EM characterized fitness traits in D. solani vfmB variants; PB performed RNA analyses (RT-qPCR and transcriptomics); YJ, KWH, KGC, AL and PB prepared DNA samples and perforemd sequencing; SK comparedD. solani genomes; PB, KR and DF performed statistical analyses; DF, TG, PB, VH, SR wrote the manuscript.