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Microbes can overcome the ability of plant resistance genes to confer protection against disease by mutating their corresponding avirulence genes. The fungus Leptosphaeria maculans causes blackleg disease on canola crops and subverts Brassica napus resistance genes through several DNA mutation mechanisms. One of these is repeat‐induced point (RIP) mutation, which can ‘leak’ into the avirulence genes...