scholarly journals Comparative genomics of Australian isolates of the wheat stem rust pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici reveals extensive polymorphism in candidate effector genes

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayana M. Upadhyaya ◽  
Diana P. Garnica ◽  
Haydar Karaoglu ◽  
Jana Sperschneider ◽  
Adnane Nemri ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Li ◽  
Narayana M. Upadhyaya ◽  
Jana Sperschneider ◽  
Oadi Matny ◽  
Hoa Nguyen-Phuc ◽  
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AbstractParasexuality contributes to diversity and adaptive evolution of haploid (monokaryotic) fungi. However non-sexual genetic exchange mechanisms are not defined in dikaryotic fungi (containing two distinct haploid nuclei). Newly emerged strains of the wheat stem rust pathogen, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), such as Ug99, are a major threat to global food security. Here we show that Ug99 arose by somatic hybridisation and nuclear exchange between dikaryons. Fully haplotype-resolved genome assembly and DNA proximity analysis revealed that Ug99 shares one haploid nucleus genotype with a much older African lineage of Pgt, with no recombination or reassortment. Generation of genetic variation by nuclear exchange may favour the evolution of dikaryotism by providing an advantage over diploidy.


Plant Disease ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 98 (10) ◽  
pp. 1309-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeness C. Scott ◽  
Jacob Manisterski ◽  
Hanan Sela ◽  
Pnina Ben-Yehuda ◽  
Brian J. Steffenson

Widely virulent races of the stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) such as those isolated from Africa (e.g., TTKSK, isolate synonym Ug99) threaten wheat production worldwide. To identify Aegilops accessions with effective resistance to such virulent stem rust races, up to 10 different species from Israel were evaluated against African races TTKSK, TTKST, and TTTSK and the Israeli race TTTTC as seedlings in the greenhouse. A wide diversity of stem rust reactions was observed across the Aegilops spp. and ranged from highly resistant (i.e., infection type 0) to highly susceptible (infection type 4). The frequency of resistance within a species to races TTTTC and TTKSK ranged from 7 and 14%, respectively, in Aegilops searsii to 98 and 100% in AE. speltoides. In all, 346 accessions were found resistant to the three African races and 138 accessions were resistant (or heterogeneous with a resistant component) to all four races. The species with broadly resistant accessions included Ae. longissima (59 accessions), Ae. peregrina (47 accessions), Ae. sharonensis (15 accessions), Ae. geniculata (9 accessions), Ae. kotschyi (5 accessions), and Ae. bicornis (3 accessions). Few geographical trends or correlations with climatic variables were observed with respect to stem rust resistance in the Aegilops spp. The exception was Ae. longissima infected with race TTTTC, where a high frequency of resistance was found in central and northern Israel and a very low frequency in southern Israel (Negev desert region). This geographical trend followed a pattern of annual precipitation in Israel, and a significant correlation was found between this variable and resistance in Ae. longissima. Although difficult, it is feasible to transfer resistance genes from Aegilops spp. into wheat through conventional wide-crossing schemes or, alternatively, a cloning and transformation approach. The broadly resistant accessions identified in this study will be valuable in these research programs.


1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Burdon ◽  
DR Marshall ◽  
NH Luig ◽  
DJS Gow

Isozyme phenotypes for eight enzyme systems were used to assess the origins and evolution of P. graminis f. sp. tritici (the wheat stem rust pathogen) in Australia. The results obtained by this approach agreed with pathways postulated on the basis of virulence studies, confirming the suggestion that most of the major changes in the wheat stem rust pathogen flora of Australia have resulted from overseas introductions. Moreover, they suggest that, although the more recent of these were from Africa, the first major change detected occurred as a result of an introduction from elsewhere.


2021 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Elmira Aleksandrovna Konkova

Stem rust (pathogen - biotrophic fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Erikss. & Henning) – a particularly deleterious disease of bread wheat. In this article the results of the analysis of the structure of samples of Saratov populations of wheat stem rust pathogen by signs of virulence during 2016-2020 were presented. A total of 60 pathogen isolates were characterized for virulence. In general, Saratov P. graminis populations were characterized as highly virulent during the study period. The significant variation in the virulence frequencies of P. graminis was observed in lines with the genes Sr9b, Sr9g, Sr12, Sr21, Sr25, Sr27, Sr30, Sr32, Sr33, Sr7a+12, Sr17+13. The other Sr lines used in the analysis, the virulence rates remained consistently high in all the years of research. Genes and combinations of genes: SrSatu, Sr24, Sr25+9g, Sr25+31, Sr25+38 were shown to be effective to P. graminis populations in 2016-2020.


2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dracatos ◽  
Davinder Singh ◽  
Tom Fetch ◽  
Robert Park

In barley, gene Rpg5 was first identified for providing resistance to the rye stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. secalis). A subsequent study determined that Rpg5 is required for rpg4-mediated resistance to the wheat stem rust pathogen (P. graminis f. sp. tritici) including pathotype TTKSK (“Ug99”), which poses a major threat to global wheat and barley production. Based on the effectiveness of Rpg5 against P. graminis f. sp. tritici and P. graminis f. sp. secalis, we assessed whether it also conferred resistance to the oat stem rust pathogen (P. graminis f. sp. avenae). A barley F8 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was produced by crossing ‘Q21861’ (Rpg1 and Rpg5) with ‘73-G1’ (Rpg1), which is susceptible to P. graminis f. sp. avenae, P. graminis f. sp. secalis, and some pathotypes of P. graminis f. sp. tritici. Seedling tests were performed on the F8 RIL population using Australian pathotypes of P. graminis f. sp. tritici, P. graminis f. sp. secalis, P. graminis f. sp. avenae, and a putative somatic hybrid between P. graminis f. sp. tritici and P. graminis f. sp. secalis known as the ‘Scabrum’ rust. Segregation in the responses to all rust isolates for the RILs was identical (50 resistant: 52 susceptible), and fitted a 1:1 ratio (X2 = 0.039, P = 0.843), indicating that resistance to all isolates was monogenetically inherited. Screening of the RILs and the parental lines with perfect markers for the functional Rpg1 and Rpg5 resistance alleles indicated that Rpg1 was fixed, while Rpg5 was positive in all resistant lines and negative in all susceptible lines. This suggests that different formae speciales of P. graminis may share common effectors, and that the Rpg5 locus confers resistance to both P. graminis f. sp. tritici and P. graminis f. sp. secalis and the heterologous formae speciales of P. graminis, P. graminis f. sp. avenae.


1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 403 ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Burdon ◽  
NH Luig ◽  
DR Marshall

During a routine survey of pathotypes of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (the wheat stem rust pathogen) and P. recondita f. sp. tritici (the wheat leaf rust pathogen) present in Australia during the 1981-82 growing season, 16 pathotypes of P. graminis tritici and 12 pathotypes of P. recondita tritici were detected in total samples of 193 and 180 isolates of the two pathogens respectively. For both pathogens the distribution of isolates amongst the different pathotypes was highly uneven. The commonest pathotype of P. graminis tritici (pathotype 343-1,2,3,5,6) comprised 50% of isolates while the commonest pathotype of P. recondita tritici (pathotype 104-2,3,6) made up 69 % of isolates. Many pathotypes of both species were represented by single isolates only.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (81) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Galina Volkova ◽  
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Olesya Miroshnichenko ◽  
Olga Tarancheva ◽  
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Plant Disease ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Peterson ◽  
K. J. Leonard ◽  
J. D. Miller ◽  
R. J. Laudon ◽  
T. B. Sutton

A federal and state program operated from 1918 until the 1980s to eradicate common barberry (Berberis vulgaris), the alternate host of Puccinia graminis, from the major areas of cereal production in the United States. Over 500 million bushes were destroyed nationally during the program, approximately 1 million in Minnesota. Some sites in Minnesota where barberry bushes were destroyed remained in the “active” class when eradication was phased out in the 1980s. Active sites were defined as those on which there was still a possibility of emergence of barberry seedlings or sprouts arising from the parent bush. In the present study, from 1998 to 2002, 72 of the approximately 1,200 active sites in Minnesota were surveyed. Areas within 90 m of mapped locations of previously destroyed bushes were searched carefully at each site. Reemerged barberry plants were found on 32 sites. The reproductive status and GPS coordinates were recorded for each reemerged bush. More than 90% of the barberry bushes were found in counties with less than 400 ha of wheat per county, mostly in southeastern Minnesota, but one bush was found in a major wheat-producing county in northwestern Minnesota. Reemergence of barberry may serve as a source of new wheat stem rust races in future epidemics.


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