Dear Marc Henri,
Please forward this message to J-L Nottéghem-
We all agree that widely used names should not be changed before careful evaluation and thorough discussion, and that is why we are here discussing this issue in the past several months.
The reason that Magnaporthe is not the right generic name for the rice blast fungus is not because of the new nomenclature, but because recent analysis based on DNA sequences, morphological, and ecological characters all indicate that the rice blast fungus is different from the true Magnaporthe--the rice stem rot fungus (M. salvinii). Unless we conserve Magnaporthe for the rice blast fungus, a name change is needed.
Regarding the change of fungal nomenclature-
