How good are we at predicting the field host-range of fungal pathogens used for classical biological control of weeds?

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Benefits of Classical Biological Control for Managing Invasive Plants (2005, background): “In particular, there have been no reports of introduced fungi attacking nontarget plants (Barton, 2004).”
Ecological, practical, and political inputs into selection of weed targets: What makes a good biological control target? (2005, background): “& Sacc. f. sp. cuscutae Annual or perennial parasite Seed, clonal Templeton (1982); Wang (1989) Cyperus esculentus L. P. canaliculata (Schwein.)”
Scientific advances in the analysis of direct risks of weed biological control agents to nontarget plants (2005, background): “…in plant pathogens can be largely explained by host quality or environmental diVerences between the laboratory settings of the tests and the Weld situation (Barton, 2004), in arthropods there are a number of causes now recognized that relate to arthropod behavior and other ecological factors.”