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Mashabela MD, Tugizimana F, Steenkamp PA, Piater LA, Dubery IA, Terefe T, Mhlongo MI. Metabolomic evaluation of PGPR defence priming in wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars infected with Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (stripe rust). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1103413. [PMID: 37123830 PMCID: PMC10132142 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1103413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Plant-microbe interactions are a phenomenal display of symbiotic/parasitic relationships between living organisms. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are some of the most widely investigated plant-beneficial microbes due to their capabilities in stimulating plant growth and development and conferring protection to plants against biotic and abiotic stresses. As such, PGPR-mediated plant priming/induced systemic resistance (ISR) has become a hot topic among researchers, particularly with prospects of applications in sustainable agriculture. The current study applies untargeted ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-high-definition mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HDMS) to investigate PGPR-based metabolic reconfigurations in the metabolome of primed wheat plants against Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tricti (Pst). A seed bio-priming approach was adopted, where seeds were coated with two PGPR strains namely Bacillus subtilis and Paenibacillus alvei (T22) and grown under controlled conditions in a glasshouse. The plants were infected with Pst one-week post-germination, followed by weekly harvesting of leaf material. Subsequent metabolite extraction was carried out for analysis on a UHPLC-HDMS system for data acquisition. The data was chemometrically processed to reveal the underlying trends and data structures as well as potential signatory biomarkers for priming against Pst. Results showed notable metabolic reprogramming in primary and secondary metabolism, where the amino acid and organic acid content of primed-control, primed-challenged and non-primed-challenged plants were differentially reprogrammed. Similar trends were observed from the secondary metabolism, in which primed plants (particularly primed-challenged) showed an up-regulation of phenolic compounds (flavonoids, hydroxycinnamic acids-HCAs- and HCA amides) compared to the non-primed plants. The metabolomics-based semi-quantitative and qualitative assessment of the plant metabolomes revealed a time-dependent metabolic reprogramming in primed-challenged and primed-unchallenged plants, indicating the metabolic adaptations of the plants to stripe rust infection over time.
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- Manamele D. Mashabela
- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
- International Research and Development Division, Omnia Group, Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Small Grain Diseases and Crop Protection, Agricultural Research Council-Small Grains Institute (ARC-SGI), Private Bag X29 Bethlehem, Free State, Bethlehem, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
- *Correspondence: Msizi I. Mhlongo,
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Dispersal Kernel Type Highly Influences Projected Relationships for Plant Disease Epidemic Severity When Outbreak and At-Risk Populations Differ in Susceptibility. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:life12111727. [DOI: 10.3390/life12111727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In silico study of biologically invading organisms provide a means to evaluate the complex and potentially cryptic factors that can influence invasion success in scenarios where empirical studies would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct. I used a disease event simulation program to evaluate whether the two most frequently used types of plant pathogen dispersal kernels for epidemiological projections would provide complementary or divergent projections of epidemic severity when the hosts in a disease outbreak differed from the hosts in the at-risk population in the degree of susceptibility. Exponential dispersal kernel simulations of wheat stripe rust (Pucciniastriiformis var trittici) predicted a relatively strong and dominant influence of the at-risk population on the end epidemic severity regardless of outbreak disease levels. Simulations using a modified power law dispersal kernel gave projections that varied depending on the amount of disease in the outbreak and some interactions were counter-intuitive and opposite of the exponential dispersal kernel projections. Although relatively straightforward, the disease spread simulations in the present study strongly suggest that a more biologically accurate dispersal kernel generates complexity that would not be revealed by an exponential dispersal gradient and that selecting a less accurate dispersal kernel may obscure important interactions during biological invasions.
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Bouvet L, Holdgate S, James L, Thomas J, Mackay IJ, Cockram J. The evolving battle between yellow rust and wheat: implications for global food security. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:741-753. [PMID: 34821981 PMCID: PMC8942934 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03983-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a global commodity, and its production is a key component underpinning worldwide food security. Yellow rust, also known as stripe rust, is a wheat disease caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis Westend f. sp. tritici (Pst), and results in yield losses in most wheat growing areas. Recently, the rapid global spread of genetically diverse sexually derived Pst races, which have now largely replaced the previous clonally propagated slowly evolving endemic populations, has resulted in further challenges for the protection of global wheat yields. However, advances in the application of genomics approaches, in both the host and pathogen, combined with classical genetic approaches, pathogen and disease monitoring, provide resources to help increase the rate of genetic gain for yellow rust resistance via wheat breeding while reducing the carbon footprint of the crop. Here we review key elements in the evolving battle between the pathogen and host, with a focus on solutions to help protect future wheat production from this globally important disease.
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- Laura Bouvet
- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
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- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
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- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
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- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK.
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Wang C, Li Y, Wang B, Hu X. Genetic Analysis Reveals Relationships Among Populations of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici from the Longnan, Longdong, and Central Shaanxi Regions of China. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2022; 112:278-289. [PMID: 34129356 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-20-0312-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is one of the most important diseases of wheat worldwide. In China, Longnan (LN) and Longdong (LD) in the south and east of Gansu province, respectively, are important P. striiformis f. sp. tritici oversummering areas and are a source of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici inoculum for the major wheat-growing regions in eastern China. Central Shaanxi (CS) is a wheat-growing region that acts as an important bridge zone for stripe rust epidemic development between LN and LD in the west and the Huanghuai wheat-growing region in the east, and thus, it plays an essential role in P. striiformis f. sp. tritici epidemics in China. To study the relationships among P. striiformis f. sp. tritici populations in the three regions (LN, LD, and CS), we sampled 284 isolates from different geographic locations. Based on 10 simple sequence repeat markers, the results demonstrated high genetic diversity in all three regions, although diversity did vary among regions, with LN > LD > CS. Genetic differentiation was lower, with more extensive gene flow between LD and CS. P. striiformis f. sp. tritici populations in the CS region were genetically closer to those from LD than those from LN, which may be a result of geographical proximity and topography. A positive and significant correlation existed between linearized fixation index (FST) and the log of geographical distances among all subpopulations. Linkage disequilibrium analysis showed that subpopulations of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici from Qinzhou, Qincheng, Beidao, and Maiji from LN and Qianyang and Longxian from CS were in equilibrium (P > 0.05), suggesting that somatic hybridization and/or sexual reproduction may exist in these subpopulations.
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- Conghao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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Bouvet L, Percival-Alwyn L, Berry S, Fenwick P, Mantello CC, Sharma R, Holdgate S, Mackay IJ, Cockram J. Wheat genetic loci conferring resistance to stripe rust in the face of genetically diverse races of the fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:301-319. [PMID: 34837509 PMCID: PMC8741662 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03967-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Analysis of a wheat multi-founder population identified 14 yellow rust resistance QTL. For three of the four most significant QTL, haplotype analysis indicated resistance alleles were rare in European wheat. Stripe rust, or yellow rust (YR), is a major fungal disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum) caused by Puccinia striiformis Westend f. sp. tritici (Pst). Since 2011, the historically clonal European Pst races have been superseded by the rapid incursion of genetically diverse lineages, reducing the resistance of varieties previously showing durable resistance. Identification of sources of genetic resistance to such races is a high priority for wheat breeding. Here we use a wheat eight-founder multi-parent population genotyped with a 90,000 feature single nucleotide polymorphism array to genetically map YR resistance to such new Pst races. Genetic analysis of five field trials at three UK sites identified 14 quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring resistance. Of these, four highly significant loci were consistently identified across all test environments, located on chromosomes 1A (QYr.niab-1A.1), 2A (QYr.niab-2A.1), 2B (QYr.niab-2B.1) and 2D (QYr.niab-2D.1), together explaining ~ 50% of the phenotypic variation. Analysis of these four QTL in two-way and three-way combinations showed combinations conferred greater resistance than single QTL, and genetic markers were developed that distinguished resistant and susceptible alleles. Haplotype analysis in a collection of wheat varieties found that the haplotypes associated with YR resistance at three of these four major loci were rare (≤ 7%) in European wheat, highlighting their potential utility for future targeted improvement of disease resistance. Notably, the physical interval for QTL QYr.niab-2B.1 contained five nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat candidate genes with integrated BED domains, of which two corresponded to the cloned resistance genes Yr7 and Yr5/YrSp.
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- Laura Bouvet
- NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK.
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Discovery of a Novel Leaf Rust ( Puccinia recondita) Resistance Gene in Rye ( Secale cereale L.) Using Association Genomics. Cells 2021; 11:cells11010064. [PMID: 35011626 PMCID: PMC8750363 DOI: 10.3390/cells11010064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Leaf rust constitutes one of the most important foliar diseases in rye (Secale cereale L.). To discover new sources of resistance, we phenotyped 180 lines belonging to a less well-characterized Gülzow germplasm at three field trial locations in Denmark and Northern Germany in 2018 and 2019. We observed lines with high leaf rust resistance efficacy at all locations in both years. A genome-wide association study using 261,406 informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms revealed two genomic regions associated with resistance on chromosome arms 1RS and 7RS, respectively. The most resistance-associated marker on chromosome arm 1RS physically co-localized with molecular markers delimiting Pr3. In the reference genomes Lo7 and Weining, the genomic region associated with resistance on chromosome arm 7RS contained a large number of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) genes. Residing in close proximity to the most resistance-associated marker, we identified a cluster of NLRs exhibiting close protein sequence similarity with the wheat leaf rust Lr1 gene situated on chromosome arm 5DL in wheat, which is syntenic to chromosome arm 7RS in rye. Due to the close proximity to the most resistance-associated marker, our findings suggest that the considered leaf rust R gene, provisionally denoted Pr6, could be a Lr1 ortholog in rye.
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Chen W, Zhang Z, Ma X, Zhang G, Yao Q, Kang Z, Zhao J. Phenotyping and Genotyping Analyses Reveal the Spread of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Aeciospores From Susceptible Barberry to Wheat in Qinghai of China. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:764304. [PMID: 34975948 PMCID: PMC8719489 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.764304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Eriks., the cause of wheat yellow or stripe rust on wheat, undergoes sexual reproduction on barberry, but it is unclear if barberry plays any role in stripe rust epidemics under natural conditions. P. striiformis f. sp. tritici was isolated from its alternate host barberry (Berberis spp.) and primary host wheat in the vicinity of barberry by inoculation of aeciospores and urediniospores on Mingxian 169 cultivar in Qinghai province of China in 2018. The P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates from barberry and wheat were characterized to virulence patterns by inoculation on 24 differentials bearing Yr gene under control conditions and analyzed using 12 polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The occurrence frequency of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici on barberry was 1.87% by inoculation aecia, collected from barberry on Mingxian 169 of wheat. A close virulence relationship was presented between P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates from both barberry and wheat based on virulence simple matching coefficient and principal coordinates analysis (PCoA). Additionally, the same genetic ancestry, based on structure analysis by STRUCTURE program and genetic relationship analyses using discriminant analysis of principal components and PCoA, was shared between P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates from barberry and those from wheat. Together, all the results indicated that the role of barberry in providing aeciospores as an inoculum source causing wheat stripe rust epidemic in Qinghai in spring is of considerable importance.
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- Wen Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
- Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Guiyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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Huang M, Liu T, Cao S, Yuen J, Zhan J, Jia Q, Gao L, Liu B, Chen W, Berlin A. Analyses of Wheat Yellow Rust Populations Reveal Sexual Recombination and Seasonal Migration Pattern of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in Gangu, Northwestern China. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:2268-2277. [PMID: 34878826 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-12-20-0558-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is the causal agent of wheat yellow rust with records of regular and severe epidemics in China. This study explored the population dynamics of the yellow rust pathogen in Gangu, northwestern China. In Gangu, the Weihe River runs from west to east and divides Gangu into three regions: North and South mountain, with the valley in between. To study the genetic structure of the pathogen in local populations, samples were collected over 3 years from the three regions at different altitudes both within and between the wheat cropping seasons. A total of 811 P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates were successfully genotyped using 16 simple sequence repeat markers. The results suggest that P. striiformis f. sp. tritici can survive year-round in Gangu. The P. striiformis f. sp. tritici populations migrated among the regions, and the migration pattern was not related to altitude. The oversummering populations in the North and South mountain regions were genetically different from each other; and the P. striiformis f. sp. tritici populations collected from the lower altitude in the valley had no relationship with any of the populations collected in the spring or fall, indicating that they too have a different origin. Signatures of random mating were found in the populations collected in both North and South mountain regions, but not in the valley populations.
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- Miaomiao Huang
- State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
- College of Plant Protection, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
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- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
- Institute of Plant Protection, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
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- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
- Institute of Plant Protection, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
- National Agricultural Experimental Station for Plant Protection, Gangu, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Gansu 741200, China
- College of Plant Protection, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
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Ding Y, Cuddy WS, Wellings CR, Zhang P, Thach T, Hovmøller MS, Qutob D, Brar GS, Kutcher HR, Park RF. Incursions of divergent genotypes, evolution of virulence and host jumps shape a continental clonal population of the stripe rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:6566-6584. [PMID: 34543497 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Revised: 08/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Long-distance migration and host adaptation by transboundary plant pathogens often brings detrimental effects to important agroecosystems. Efficient surveillance as a basis for responding to the dynamics of such pathogens is often hampered by a lack of information on incursion origin, evolutionary pathways and the genetic basis of rapidly evolving virulence across larger timescales. Here, we studied these genetic features by using historical isolates of the obligate biotrophic pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), which causes one of the most widespread and devastating diseases, stripe (yellow) rust, of wheat. Through a combination of genotypic, phenotypic and genomic analyses, we assigned eight Pst isolates representing putative exotic Pst incursions into Australia to four previously defined genetic groups, PstS0, PstS1, PstS10 and PstS13. We showed that isolates of an additional incursion of P. striiformis, known locally as P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei, had a new and unique multilocus SSR genotype (MLG). We provide results of overall genomic variation of representative Pst isolates from each genetic group by comparative genomic analyses. We showed that isolates within the PstS1 and PstS13 genetic groups are most distinct at the whole-genome variant level from isolates belonging to genetic group PstS0, whereas the isolate from the PstS10 genetic group is intermediate. We further explored variable gene content, including putative effectors, representing both shared but also unique genetic changes that have occurred following introduction, some of which may additionally account for local adaptation of these isolates to triticale. Our genotypic and genomic data revealed new genetic insights into the evolution of diverse phenotypes of rust pathogens following incursion into a geographically isolated continental region.
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- Yi Ding
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, NSW, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia.,NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, NSW, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Center, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Center, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, ON, USA
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- Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
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Rodriguez-Algaba J, Hovmøller MS, Villegas D, Cantero-Martínez C, Jin Y, Justesen AF. Two Indigenous Berberis Species From Spain Were Confirmed as Alternate Hosts of the Yellow Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. PLANT DISEASE 2021; 105:2281-2285. [PMID: 33630692 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-02-21-0269-sc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, which causes yellow (or stripe) rust on wheat, is a macrocyclic and heteroecious fungus. In this study, we investigated whether Berberis vulgaris subsp. seroi and B. vulgaris subsp. australis, which are indigenous in Spain, may serve as alternate hosts for P. striiformis f. sp. tritici. Wheat leaves bearing telia of an isolate of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici were harvested and used to inoculate plants of both barberry subspecies. Pycnia were observed on the adaxial side of the leaves from 10 days after inoculation (dai). Following successful fertilization, aecia were observed on the abaxial side of the leaves from 16 dai. At 27 dai, barberry leaves bearing aecia were detached and used to inoculate susceptible wheat seedlings of cultivar Morocco. Uredinia were observed on wheat seedlings from 12 days after aeciospore exposure. Eighty-three single lesions were recovered from individual wheat leaves, of which 43 were genotyped using 19 P. striiformis f. sp. tritici simple sequence repeat markers (SSR). In total, 19 multilocus genotypes (MLGs) were identified among the 43 progeny isolates. The SSR genotyping confirmed that all 43 isolates were derived from the parental isolate. Seven heterozygous SSR markers showed segregation among the progenies, whereas none of the 12 homozygous markers resulted in segregation. These results demonstrated that B. vulgaris subspp. seroi and australis can serve as alternate hosts for P. striiformis f. sp. tritici, which may result in novel virulence combinations that can have a detrimental impact on wheat production. Although P. striiformis f. sp. tritici has not been detected on these barberry species in nature, this study highlights the importance of rust surveillance in barberry areas where suitable conditions for completion of the sexual life cycle may be present.
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- J Rodriguez-Algaba
- Global Rust Reference Center, Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- Global Rust Reference Center, Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- IRTA, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Global Rust Reference Center, Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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Khan MR, Imtiaz M, Ahmad B, Munir A, Rattu AUR, Facho ZH, Ali S. Diversity in Puccinia striiformis populations causing the 2013 yellow rust epidemics on major wheat cultivars of Pakistan. Mycologia 2020; 112:871-879. [PMID: 32813615 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1792263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Wheat yellow/stripe rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis is highly diverse and recombinant in the north of Pakistan in the Himalayan region. However, little is known about the role of this diversity in disease epidemics in areas where wheat yellow rust is an important disease in both irrigated and rain-fed wheat (i.e., in the plains of Pakistan). We explored the population diversity in P. striiformis during the rust epidemics of 2013 in the major wheat-growing regions of Pakistan (the Himalayan region, central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [KP], southern KP, central and northern Punjab). Disease severities among commonly grown cultivars ranged from 5% to 100%. Microsatellite genotyping with 16 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers revealed a high diversity among 266 isolates collected during the season, with the Simpson diversity index (Simpson 1949) ranging from 0.870 (Himalayan) to 0.955 (southern KP). The recombination signature was stronger in the Himalayan population and central KP compared with wheat-growing regions of Punjab and southern KP. The overall diversity was higher in Pakistan relative to the clonal populations present in Europe, Australia, and the Americas. Analyses of population subdivision revealed no clear evidence of spatial structure for samples from Pakistan, with a maximum fixation index (FST) value of only 0.10. The lack of clear population subdivision could be attributed to migration of pathogen. In turn, the high diversity of P. striiformis in Pakistan represents a potential threat to wheat production in the region and worldwide, as a possible source to found clonal populations in diverse wheat-growing areas.
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- Muhammad Rameez Khan
- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture , Peshawar, Pakistan
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) , Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Directorate of Agriculture Research, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Crop Disease Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre , Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, The University of Agriculture , Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture , Peshawar, Pakistan
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Figueroa M, Dodds PN, Henningsen EC. Evolution of virulence in rust fungi - multiple solutions to one problem. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 56:20-27. [PMID: 32244171 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Rust fungi are major pathogens that negatively affect crops and ecosystems. Recent rust disease epidemics driven by the emergence of strains with novel virulence profiles demand a better understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms of these organisms. Here, we review research advances in genome-scale analysis coupled with functional validation of effector candidate genes that have been instrumental to elucidate processes that contribute to changes in virulence phenotypes. We highlight how haplotype-phased genome references have paved the road to link these processes to the reproductive phases of rust fungi and have provided evidence for somatic exchange between strains as an important mechanism for generating diversity in asexual populations. With increasing data availability, we envision the future development of molecular virulence diagnostic tools.
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- Melania Figueroa
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Capador H, Samils B, Kaitera J, Olson Å. Genetic evidence for sexual reproduction and multiple infections of Norway spruce cones by the rust fungus Thekopsora areolata. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:7389-7403. [PMID: 32760536 PMCID: PMC7391340 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rust fungi are obligate parasites, of plants, with complex and in many cases poorly known life cycles which may include host alteration and up to five spore types with haploid, diploid, and dikaryotic nuclear stages. This study supports that Thekopasora areolata, the causal agent of cherry-spruce rust in Norway spruce, is a macrocyclic heteroecious fungus with all five spore stages which uses two host plants Prunus padus and Picea abies to complete its life cycle. High genotypic diversity without population structure was found, which suggests predominantly sexual reproduction, random mating and a high gene flow within and between the populations in Fennoscandia. There was no evidence for an autoecious life cycle resulting from aeciospore infection of pistillate cones that would explain the previously reported rust epidemics without the alternate host. However, within cones and scales identical multilocus genotypes were repeatedly sampled which can be explained by vegetative growth of the fertilized mycelia or repeated mating of mycelium by spermatia of the same genotype. The high genotypic diversity within cones and haplotype inference show that each pistillate cone is infected by several basidiospores. This study provides genetic evidence for high gene flow, sexual reproduction, and multiple infections of Norway spruce cone by the rust fungus T. areolata which expands the general understanding of the biology of rust fungi.
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- Hernán Capador
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant PathologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant PathologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- Natural Resources Institute FinlandUniversity of OuluOuluFinland
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant PathologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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Alternate Hosts of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and Their Role. Pathogens 2020; 9:pathogens9060434. [PMID: 32498285 PMCID: PMC7350320 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9060434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Understanding the interactions between the host and the pathogen is important in developing resistant cultivars and strategies for controlling the disease. Since the discovery of Berberis and Mahonia spp. as alternate hosts of the wheat stripe rust pathogen, Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici Erikss. (Pst), their possible role in generating new races of Pst through sexual reproduction has become a hot topic. To date, all the investigations about the role of alternate hosts in the occurrence of the wheat stripe rust epidemics revealed that it depends on alternate host species and environmental conditions. In this review, we summarized the current status of alternate hosts of Pst, their interactions with the pathogen, their importance in genetic diversity and disease epidemics. Most importantly, the recent research progress in understanding the role of alternate hosts of Pst is provided.
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Schwessinger B, Chen YJ, Tien R, Vogt JK, Sperschneider J, Nagar R, McMullan M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Sørensen CK, Hovmøller MS, Rathjen JP, Justesen AF. Distinct Life Histories Impact Dikaryotic Genome Evolution in the Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis Causing Stripe Rust in Wheat. Genome Biol Evol 2020; 12:597-617. [PMID: 32271913 DOI: 10.1101/859728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Stripe rust of wheat, caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici, is a major threat to wheat production worldwide with an estimated yearly loss of US $1 billion. The recent advances in long-read sequencing technologies and tailored-assembly algorithms enabled us to disentangle the two haploid genomes of Pst. This provides us with haplotype-specific information at a whole-genome level. Exploiting this novel information, we perform whole-genome comparative genomics of two P. striiformis f.sp. tritici isolates with contrasting life histories. We compare one isolate of the old European lineage (PstS0), which has been asexual for over 50 years, and a Warrior isolate (PstS7 lineage) from a novel incursion into Europe in 2011 from a sexual population in the Himalayan region. This comparison provides evidence that long-term asexual evolution leads to genome expansion, accumulation of transposable elements, and increased heterozygosity at the single nucleotide, structural, and allele levels. At the whole-genome level, candidate effectors are not compartmentalized and do not exhibit reduced levels of synteny. Yet we were able to identify two subsets of candidate effector populations. About 70% of candidate effectors are invariant between the two isolates, whereas 30% are hypervariable. The latter might be involved in host adaptation on wheat and explain the different phenotypes of the two isolates. Overall, this detailed comparative analysis of two haplotype-aware assemblies of P. striiformis f.sp. tritici is the first step in understanding the evolution of dikaryotic rust fungi at a whole-genome level.
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- Benjamin Schwessinger
- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Dentistry, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Biological Data Science Institute, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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Schwessinger B, Chen YJ, Tien R, Vogt JK, Sperschneider J, Nagar R, McMullan M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Sørensen CK, Hovmøller MS, Rathjen JP, Justesen AF. Distinct Life Histories Impact Dikaryotic Genome Evolution in the Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis Causing Stripe Rust in Wheat. Genome Biol Evol 2020; 12:597-617. [PMID: 32271913 PMCID: PMC7250506 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Stripe rust of wheat, caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici, is a major threat to wheat production worldwide with an estimated yearly loss of US $1 billion. The recent advances in long-read sequencing technologies and tailored-assembly algorithms enabled us to disentangle the two haploid genomes of Pst. This provides us with haplotype-specific information at a whole-genome level. Exploiting this novel information, we perform whole-genome comparative genomics of two P. striiformis f.sp. tritici isolates with contrasting life histories. We compare one isolate of the old European lineage (PstS0), which has been asexual for over 50 years, and a Warrior isolate (PstS7 lineage) from a novel incursion into Europe in 2011 from a sexual population in the Himalayan region. This comparison provides evidence that long-term asexual evolution leads to genome expansion, accumulation of transposable elements, and increased heterozygosity at the single nucleotide, structural, and allele levels. At the whole-genome level, candidate effectors are not compartmentalized and do not exhibit reduced levels of synteny. Yet we were able to identify two subsets of candidate effector populations. About 70% of candidate effectors are invariant between the two isolates, whereas 30% are hypervariable. The latter might be involved in host adaptation on wheat and explain the different phenotypes of the two isolates. Overall, this detailed comparative analysis of two haplotype-aware assemblies of P. striiformis f.sp. tritici is the first step in understanding the evolution of dikaryotic rust fungi at a whole-genome level.
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- Benjamin Schwessinger
- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Dentistry, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Biological Data Science Institute, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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Mehmood S, Sajid M, Husnain SK, Zhao J, Huang L, Kang Z. Study of Inheritance and Linkage of Virulence Genes in a Selfing Population of a Pakistani Dominant Race of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21051685. [PMID: 32121459 PMCID: PMC7084513 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21051685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wheat stripe rust is a severe threat of almost all wheat-growing regions in the world. Being an obligate biotrophic fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST) produces new virulent races that break the resistance of wheat varieties. In this study, 115 progeny isolates were generated through sexual reproduction on susceptible Himalayan Berberis pseudumbellata using a dominant Pakistani race (574232) of PST. The parental isolate and progeny isolates were characterized using 24 wheat Yr single-gene lines and ten simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. From the one-hundred-and-fifteen progeny isolates, 25 virulence phenotypes (VPs) and 60 multilocus genotypes were identified. The parental and all progeny isolates were avirulent to Yr5, Yr10, Yr15, Yr24, Yr32, Yr43, YrSp, YrTr1, YrExp2, Yr26, and YrTye and virulent to Yr1, Yr2, Yr6, Yr7, Yr8, Yr9, Yr17, Yr25, Yr27, Yr28, YrA, Yr44, and Yr3. Based on the avirulence/virulence phenotypes, we found that VPs virulent to Yr1, Yr2, Yr9, Yr17, Yr47, and YrA were controlled by one dominant gene; those to YrSp, YrTr1, and Yr10 by two dominant genes; and those to YrExp2 by two complementary dominant genes. The results are useful in breeding stripe rust-resistant wheat varieties and understanding virulence diversity.
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- Sajid Mehmood
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.M.); (Z.K.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China;
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- Plant Pathology Section, Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal 48800, Punjab, Pakistan;
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.M.); (Z.K.)
- Correspondence: (J.Z.); (L.H.); Tel.: +86-29-870-18-1317 (J.Z.); +86-29-8709-1312 (L.H.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.M.); (Z.K.)
- Correspondence: (J.Z.); (L.H.); Tel.: +86-29-870-18-1317 (J.Z.); +86-29-8709-1312 (L.H.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.M.); (Z.K.)
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Koutouleas A, Jørgen Lyngs Jørgensen H, Jensen B, Lillesø JB, Junge A, Ræbild A. On the hunt for the alternate host of Hemileia vastatrix. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:13619-13631. [PMID: 31871671 PMCID: PMC6912922 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the fungal pathogen Hemileia vastatrix, has plagued coffee production worldwide for over 150 years. Hemileia vastatrix produces urediniospores, teliospores, and the sexual basidiospores. Infection of coffee by basidiospores of H. vastatrix has never been reported and thus far, no alternate host, capable of supporting an aecial stage in the disease cycle, has been found. Due to this, some argue that an alternate host of H. vastatrix does not exist. Yet, to date, the plant pathology community has been puzzled by the ability of H. vastatrix to overcome resistance in coffee cultivars despite the apparent lack of sexual reproduction and an aecidial stage. The purpose of this study was to introduce a new method to search for the alternate host(s) of H. vastatrix. To do this, we present the novel hypothetical alternate host ranking (HAHR) method and an automated text mining (ATM) procedure, utilizing comprehensive biogeographical botanical data from the designated sites of interests (Ethiopia, Kenya and Sri Lanka) and plant pathology insights. With the HAHR/ATM methods, we produced prioritized lists of potential alternate hosts plant of coffee leaf rust. This is a first attempt to seek out an alternate plant host of a pathogenic fungus in this manner. The HAHR method showed the highest-ranking probable alternate host as Psychotria mahonii, Rubus apetalus, and Rhamnus prinoides. The cross-referenced results by the two methods suggest that plant genera of interest are Croton, Euphorbia, and Rubus. The HAHR and ATM methods may also be applied to other plant-rust interactions that include an unknown alternate host or any other biological system, which rely on data mining of published data.
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- Athina Koutouleas
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource ManagementUniversity of CopenhagenFrederiksberg CDenmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Copenhagen Plant Science CentreUniversity of CopenhagenFrederiksberg CDenmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Copenhagen Plant Science CentreUniversity of CopenhagenFrederiksberg CDenmark
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- Faculty of Health and Medical SciencesNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein ResearchUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagen NDenmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource ManagementUniversity of CopenhagenFrederiksberg CDenmark
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Khan MR, Rehman ZU, Nazir SN, Tshewang S, Baidya S, Hodson D, Imtiaz M, Ali S. Genetic Divergence and Diversity in Himalayan Puccinia striiformis Populations from Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2019; 109:1793-1800. [PMID: 31179857 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-01-19-0031-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The western Himalayan region in Pakistan has been shown to be the center of diversity of Puccinia striiformis; however, little is known about its genetic relations with the eastern part of the Himalayas. We studied the genetic structure of P. striiformis from Nepal (35 isolates) and Bhutan (31 isolates) in comparison with 81 Pakistani samples collected during 2015 and 2016, through microsatellite genotyping. Genetic analyses revealed a recombinant and highly diverse population structure in Pakistan, Bhutan, and Nepal. A high level of genotypic diversity (>0.90) was observed for the three countries of Pakistan (0.96), Bhutan (0.96), and Nepal (0.91) with the detection of 108 distinct multilocus genotypes (MLGs) in the overall population; 59 for Pakistan, 27 for Bhutan, and 26 for Nepal. Mean number of alleles per locus and gene diversity were higher in Nepal (3.19 and 0.458, respectively) than Bhutan (3.12 and 0.458, respectively). A nonsignificant difference between the observed and the expected heterozygosity in all populations further confirmed the recombinant structure. A clear population subdivision between the Himalayan region of Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan was evident, as revealed by FST values (ranging between 0.111 to 0.198), discriminant analysis of principal components, and resampling of MLGs. Limited gene flow could be present between Nepal and Bhutan, while the population from Pakistan was clearly distinct, and no divergence was present between two populations from Pakistan (Bajaur and Malakand). The overall high diversity and recombination signature suggested the potential role of recombination in the eastern Himalayan region (Nepal and Bhutan), which needs to be considered during host resistance deployment and in the context of aerial dispersal of the pathogen. Further surveillance should be made in the Himalayan region for disease management in the region and in the context of worldwide invasions.
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- Muhammad Rameez Khan
- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Tsirang, Bhutan
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- Plant Pathology Division, Nepal Agriculture Research Council, Nepal
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Siyoum GZ, Zeng Q, Zhao J, Chen X, Badebo A, Tian Y, Huang L, Kang Z, Zhan G. Inheritance of Virulence and Linkages of Virulence Genes in an Ethiopian Isolate of the Wheat Stripe Rust Pathogen ( Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) Determined Through Sexual Recombination on Berberis holstii. PLANT DISEASE 2019; 103:2451-2459. [PMID: 31322491 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-02-19-0269-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is one of the most devastating wheat diseases in Ethiopia. To study virulence genetics of the pathogen, 117 progeny isolates were produced through sexual reproduction of an Ethiopian isolate of the stripe rust pathogen on Berberis holstii plants under controlled conditions. The parental and progeny isolates were characterized by phenotyping on wheat lines carrying single Yr genes for resistance and genotyped using 10 polymorphic simple sequence repeated (SSR) markers. The progeny isolates were classified into 37 virulence phenotypes and 75 multilocus genotypes. The parental isolate and progeny isolates were all avirulent to resistance genes Yr5, Yr10, Yr15, Yr24, Yr32, YrTr1, YrSP, and Yr76 but virulent to Yr1 and Yr2, indicating that the parental isolate was homozygous avirulent or homozygous virulent at these loci. The progeny isolates segregated for virulence to 12 Yr genes. Virulence phenotypes to Yr6, Yr28, Yr43, and Yr44 were controlled by a single dominant gene; those to Yr7, Yr9, Yr17, Yr27, Yr25, Yr31, and YrExp2 were each controlled by two dominant genes; and the virulence phenotype to Yr8 was controlled by two complementary dominant genes. A linkage map was constructed with seven SSR markers, and 16 virulence loci corresponding to 11 Yr resistance genes were mapped with some loci linked to each other. These results are useful in understanding host-pathogen interactions and selecting resistance genes to develop wheat cultivars with highly effective resistance to stripe rust.
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- Gebreslasie Zeray Siyoum
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA 99164-6430, U.S.A
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Ethiopia, International Livestock Research Institute Gurd Shola Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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Mehmood S, Sajid M, Zhao J, Khan T, Zhan G, Huang L, Kang Z. Identification of Berberis Species Collected from the Himalayan Region of Pakistan Susceptible to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. PLANT DISEASE 2019; 103:461-467. [PMID: 30657429 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-01-18-0154-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), the stripe rust pathogen infecting cereal crops and grasses, was believed to have a hemicyclic life cycle consisting of uredinial and telial stages before the recent discovery of barberry (Berberis spp.) as an alternate (aecial) host for the fungus. This discovery has improved the understanding of the biology of the stripe rust pathogen. The Himalayan and near-Himalayan regions of Pakistan, China, and Nepal are considered as the center of diversity for Pst pathogen. High genetic diversity has been reported in these areas, probably resulting from the sexual reproduction of the stripe rust fungus. To determine if Berberis species growing in Pakistan are susceptible to Pst, we collected seeds of five species and two subspecies from the Himalayan region in 2016 and inoculated the seedlings with germinated teliospores of a Pakistani Pst isolate under controlled conditions. Pycnia and aecia were produced on all inoculated plants of these species and subspecies, and were demonstrated as Pst by successful infection of wheat plants with aeciospores. This study showed that the tested Pakistani Berberis species and subspecies are susceptible to Pst under controlled conditions.
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- Sajid Mehmood
- 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- 2 College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China; and
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- 3 Integrated Mountain Area Research Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Karakoram International University, Gilgit 15100, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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Saunders DGO, Pretorius ZA, Hovmøller MS. Tackling the re-emergence of wheat stem rust in Western Europe. Commun Biol 2019; 2:51. [PMID: 30729187 PMCID: PMC6361993 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0294-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In our recent Communications Biology article, we reported the first occurrence of wheat stem rust in the UK in nearly six decades. An increased incidence of wheat stem rust in Western Europe, caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, could signify the return of this formidable foe. As pathologists fight back against this devastating disease we outline the continuing research and strategies being employed to bridle its onslaught.
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Li Y, Wang M, See DR, Chen X. Ethyl-methanesulfonate mutagenesis generated diverse isolates of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the wheat stripe rust pathogen. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 35:28. [PMID: 30689125 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-019-2600-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) is an obligate biotrophic fungal pathogen causing stripe rust, one of the most important diseases of wheat worldwide. Mutation is considered as one of the major mechanisms causing virulence changes in the pathogen population, but experimental evidence is limited. To study the effect of mutation on pathogen variation, we developed 33 mutant isolates by treating urediniospores of Pst race PSTv-18, avirulent to all of the 18 Yr single-gene lines used to differentiate Pst races, with ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS). These isolates were characterized as 24 races, including 19 new races, through virulence testing on the set of 18 wheat Yr single-gene differential lines; and as 21 multi-locus genotypes with 19 simple sequence repeat and 48 single-nucleotide polymorphism markers. Most of the mutant isolates had more than one avirulence gene and more than one marker locus changed compared to the wild type isolate, indicating that EMS is able to cause mutations at multiple genome sites. The results showed that mutation can cause substantial changes in both avirulence and other genomic regions. The different frequencies of virulence among the mutant isolates suggested homozygous or heterozygous avirulence loci in the parental isolate, or relative ease of mutation at some avirulence loci. The results are useful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of the important fungal pathogen.
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- Yuxiang Li
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.,Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. .,Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA, USA.
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Brar GS, Ali S, Qutob D, Ambrose S, Lou K, Maclachlan R, Pozniak CJ, Fu YB, Sharpe AG, Kutcher HR. Genome re-sequencing and simple sequence repeat markers reveal the existence of divergent lineages in the Canadian Puccinia striiformis
f. sp. tritici
population with extensive DNA methylation. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:1498-1515. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Gurcharn S. Brar
- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources; University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr; Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8 Canada
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering; University of Agriculture; Peshawar Pakistan
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- Aquatic and Crop Resource Development; National Research Council of Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place; Saskatoon SK S7N 0W9 Canada
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- Aquatic and Crop Resource Development; National Research Council of Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place; Saskatoon SK S7N 0W9 Canada
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- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources; University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr; Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8 Canada
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- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources; University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr; Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8 Canada
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- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources; University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr; Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8 Canada
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- Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada- Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, 107 Science Place; Saskatoon SK S7N 0X2 Canada
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- Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Gymnasium Place; Saskatoon SK S7N 0W9 Canada
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- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources; University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr; Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8 Canada
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Schwessinger B, Sperschneider J, Cuddy WS, Garnica DP, Miller ME, Taylor JM, Dodds PN, Figueroa M, Park RF, Rathjen JP. A Near-Complete Haplotype-Phased Genome of the Dikaryotic Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Reveals High Interhaplotype Diversity. mBio 2018; 9:e02275-17. [PMID: 29463659 PMCID: PMC5821087 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02275-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A long-standing biological question is how evolution has shaped the genomic architecture of dikaryotic fungi. To answer this, high-quality genomic resources that enable haplotype comparisons are essential. Short-read genome assemblies for dikaryotic fungi are highly fragmented and lack haplotype-specific information due to the high heterozygosity and repeat content of these genomes. Here, we present a diploid-aware assembly of the wheat stripe rust fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici based on long reads using the FALCON-Unzip assembler. Transcriptome sequencing data sets were used to infer high-quality gene models and identify virulence genes involved in plant infection referred to as effectors. This represents the most complete Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici genome assembly to date (83 Mb, 156 contigs, N50 of 1.5 Mb) and provides phased haplotype information for over 92% of the genome. Comparisons of the phase blocks revealed high interhaplotype diversity of over 6%. More than 25% of all genes lack a clear allelic counterpart. When we investigated genome features that potentially promote the rapid evolution of virulence, we found that candidate effector genes are spatially associated with conserved genes commonly found in basidiomycetes. Yet, candidate effectors that lack an allelic counterpart are more distant from conserved genes than allelic candidate effectors and are less likely to be evolutionarily conserved within the P. striiformis species complex and Pucciniales In summary, this haplotype-phased assembly enabled us to discover novel genome features of a dikaryotic plant-pathogenic fungus previously hidden in collapsed and fragmented genome assemblies.IMPORTANCE Current representations of eukaryotic microbial genomes are haploid, hiding the genomic diversity intrinsic to diploid and polyploid life forms. This hidden diversity contributes to the organism's evolutionary potential and ability to adapt to stress conditions. Yet, it is challenging to provide haplotype-specific information at a whole-genome level. Here, we take advantage of long-read DNA sequencing technology and a tailored-assembly algorithm to disentangle the two haploid genomes of a dikaryotic pathogenic wheat rust fungus. The two genomes display high levels of nucleotide and structural variations, which lead to allelic variation and the presence of genes lacking allelic counterparts. Nonallelic candidate effector genes, which likely encode important pathogenicity factors, display distinct genome localization patterns and are less likely to be evolutionary conserved than those which are present as allelic pairs. This genomic diversity may promote rapid host adaptation and/or be related to the age of the sequenced isolate since last meiosis.
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- Benjamin Schwessinger
- Research School of Biology, the Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
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- Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, the University of Sydney, Narellan, NSW, Australia
- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, NSW, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, the Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Black Mountain Laboratories, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Black Mountain Laboratories, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, the University of Sydney, Narellan, NSW, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, the Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
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Lewis CM, Persoons A, Bebber DP, Kigathi RN, Maintz J, Findlay K, Bueno-Sancho V, Corredor-Moreno P, Harrington SA, Kangara N, Berlin A, García R, Germán SE, Hanzalová A, Hodson DP, Hovmøller MS, Huerta-Espino J, Imtiaz M, Mirza JI, Justesen AF, Niks RE, Omrani A, Patpour M, Pretorius ZA, Roohparvar R, Sela H, Singh RP, Steffenson B, Visser B, Fenwick PM, Thomas J, Wulff BBH, Saunders DGO. Potential for re-emergence of wheat stem rust in the United Kingdom. Commun Biol 2018; 1:13. [PMID: 30271900 PMCID: PMC6053080 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0013-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Wheat stem rust, a devastating disease of wheat and barley caused by the fungal pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, was largely eradicated in Western Europe during the mid-to-late twentieth century. However, isolated outbreaks have occurred in recent years. Here we investigate whether a lack of resistance in modern European varieties, increased presence of its alternate host barberry and changes in climatic conditions could be facilitating its resurgence. We report the first wheat stem rust occurrence in the United Kingdom in nearly 60 years, with only 20% of UK wheat varieties resistant to this strain. Climate changes over the past 25 years also suggest increasingly conducive conditions for infection. Furthermore, we document the first occurrence in decades of P. graminis on barberry in the UK . Our data illustrate that wheat stem rust does occur in the UK and, when climatic conditions are conducive, could severely harm wheat and barley production.
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- Clare M Lewis
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- Pwani University, 195-80108, Kilifi, Kenya
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) La Estanzuela, Mailbox 39173, Colonia, Uruguay
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) La Estanzuela, Mailbox 39173, Colonia, Uruguay
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- Crop Research Institute, Ruzyně, 161 06 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Crop Disease Research Program, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
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- Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6700, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, 5166616471, Iran
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- Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), 4119, Karaj, Iran
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- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- CIMMYT, Apdo. Postal 6-641, D. F. México, 06600, Mexico
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- University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
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Wang L, Zheng D, Zuo S, Chen X, Zhuang H, Huang L, Kang Z, Zhao J. Inheritance and Linkage of Virulence Genes in Chinese Predominant Race CYR32 of the Wheat Stripe Rust Pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:120. [PMID: 29472940 PMCID: PMC5809510 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (Pst) is the causal agent of stripe (yellow) rust on wheat. It seriously threatens wheat production worldwide. The obligate biotrophic fungus is highly capable of producing new virulent races that can overcome resistance. Studying the inheritance of Pst virulence using the classical genetic approach was not possible until the recent discovery of its sexual stage on barberry plants. In the present study, 127 progeny isolates were obtained by selfing a representative Chinese Yellow Rust (CYR) race, CYR32, on Berberis aggregate. The parental isolate and progeny isolates were characterized by testing them on 25 wheat lines with different Yr genes for resistance and 10 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The 127 progeny isolates were classified into 27 virulence phenotypes (VPs), and 65 multi-locus genotypes (MLGs). All progeny isolates and the parental isolate were avirulent to Yr5, Yr8, Yr10, Yr15, Yr24, Yr26, Yr32, and YrTr1; but virulent to Yr1, Yr2, Yr3, Yr4, Yr25, Yr44, and Yr76. The VPs of the parental isolate to nine Yr genes (Yr6, Yr7, Yr9, Yr17, Yr27, Yr28, Yr43, YrA, and YrExp2) and the avirulence phenotype to YrSP were found to be heterozygous. Based on the segregation of the virulence/avirulence phenotypes, we found that the VPs to Yr7, Yr28, Yr43, and YrExp2 were controlled by a dominant gene; those to Yr6, Yr9, and YrA (Yr73, Yr74) by two dominant genes; those to Yr17 and Yr27 by one dominant and one recessive gene; and the avirulence phenotype to YrSP by two complementary dominant genes. Molecular mapping revealed the linkage of 10 virulence/avirulence genes. Comparison of the inheritance modes of the virulence/avirulence genes in this study with previous studies indicated complex interactions between virulence genes in the pathogen and resistance genes in wheat lines. The results are useful for understanding the plant-pathogen interactions and developing wheat cultivars with effective and durable resistance.
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- Long Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- Wheat Health, Genetics and Quality Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA, United States
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
- China–Australia Joint Research Centre for Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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Tang C, Xu Q, Zhao M, Wang X, Kang Z. Understanding the lifestyles and pathogenicity mechanisms of obligate biotrophic fungi in wheat: The emerging genomics era. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2017.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Yuan C, Wang M, Skinner DZ, See DR, Xia C, Guo X, Chen X. Inheritance of Virulence, Construction of a Linkage Map, and Mapping Dominant Virulence Genes in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Through Characterization of a Sexual Population with Genotyping-by-Sequencing. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2018; 108:133-141. [PMID: 28876207 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-04-17-0139-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the wheat stripe rust pathogen, is a dikaryotic, biotrophic, and macrocyclic fungus. Genetic study of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici virulence was not possible until the recent discovery of Berberis spp. and Mahonia spp. as alternate hosts. To determine inheritance of virulence and map virulence genes, a segregating population of 119 isolates was developed by self-fertilizing P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolate 08-220 (race PSTv-11) on barberry leaves under controlled greenhouse conditions. The progeny isolates were phenotyped on a set of 29 wheat lines with single genes for race-specific resistance and genotyped with simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers derived from secreted protein genes, and SNP markers from genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS). Using the GBS technique, 10,163 polymorphic GBS-SNP markers were identified. Clustering and principal component analysis grouped these markers into six genetic groups, and a genetic map, consisting of six linkage groups, was constructed with 805 markers. The six clusters or linkage groups resulting from these analyses indicated a haploid chromosome number of six in P. striiformis f. sp. tritici. Through virulence testing of the progeny isolates, the parental isolate was found to be homozygous for the avirulence loci corresponding to resistance genes Yr5, Yr10, Yr15, Yr24, Yr32, YrSP, YrTr1, Yr45, and Yr53 and homozygous for the virulence locus corresponding to resistance gene Yr41. Segregation was observed for virulence phenotypes in response to the remaining 19 single-gene lines. A single dominant gene or two dominant genes with different nonallelic gene interactions were identified for each of the segregating virulence phenotypes. Of 27 dominant virulence genes identified, 17 were mapped to two chromosomes. Markers tightly linked to some of the virulence loci may facilitate further studies to clone these genes. The virulence genes and their inheritance information are useful for understanding the host-pathogen interactions and for selecting effective resistance genes or gene combinations for developing stripe rust resistant wheat cultivars.
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- Congying Yuan
- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First and sixth authors: College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China; first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and third, fourth, and seventh authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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Bueno-Sancho V, Persoons A, Hubbard A, Cabrera-Quio LE, Lewis CM, Corredor-Moreno P, Bunting DCE, Ali S, Chng S, Hodson DP, Madariaga Burrows R, Bryson R, Thomas J, Holdgate S, Saunders DGO. Pathogenomic Analysis of Wheat Yellow Rust Lineages Detects Seasonal Variation and Host Specificity. Genome Biol Evol 2017; 9:3282-3296. [PMID: 29177504 PMCID: PMC5730935 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Recent disease outbreaks caused by (re-)emerging plant pathogens have been associated with expansions in pathogen geographic distribution and increased virulence. For example, in the past two decades' wheat yellow (stripe) rust, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, has seen the emergence of new races that are adapted to warmer temperatures, have expanded virulence profiles, and are more aggressive than previous races, leading to wide-scale epidemics. Here, we used field-based genotyping to generate high-resolution data on P. striiformis genetics and carried out global population analysis. We also undertook comparative analysis of the 2014 and 2013 UK populations and assessed the temporal dynamics and host specificity of distinct pathogen genotypes. Our analysis revealed that P. striiformis lineages recently detected in Europe are extremely diverse and in fact similar to globally dispersed populations. In addition, we identified a considerable shift in the UK P. striiformis population structure including the first identification of one infamous race known as Kranich. Next, by establishing the genotype of both the pathogen and host within a single infected field sample, we uncovered evidence for varietal specificity for genetic groups of P. striiformis. Finally, we found potential seasonal specificity for certain genotypes of the pathogen with several lineages identified only in samples collected in late spring and into the summer, whereas one lineage was identified throughout the wheat growing season. Our discovery of which wheat varieties are susceptible to which specific P. striiformis isolates, and when those isolates are prevalent throughout the year, represents a powerful tool for disease management.
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- Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- BASF SE, Agricultural Centre, Limburgerhof, Germany
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Ali S, Rodriguez-Algaba J, Thach T, Sørensen CK, Hansen JG, Lassen P, Nazari K, Hodson DP, Justesen AF, Hovmøller MS. Yellow Rust Epidemics Worldwide Were Caused by Pathogen Races from Divergent Genetic Lineages. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1057. [PMID: 28676811 PMCID: PMC5477562 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We investigated whether the recent worldwide epidemics of wheat yellow rust were driven by races of few clonal lineage(s) or populations of divergent races. Race phenotyping of 887 genetically diverse Puccinia striiformis isolates sampled in 35 countries during 2009-2015 revealed that these epidemics were often driven by races from few but highly divergent genetic lineages. PstS1 was predominant in North America; PstS2 in West Asia and North Africa; and both PstS1 and PstS2 in East Africa. PstS4 was prevalent in Northern Europe on triticale; PstS5 and PstS9 were prevalent in Central Asia; whereas PstS6 was prevalent in epidemics in East Africa. PstS7, PstS8 and PstS10 represented three genetic lineages prevalent in Europe. Races from other lineages were in low frequencies. Virulence to Yr9 and Yr27 was common in epidemics in Africa and Asia, while virulence to Yr17 and Yr32 were prevalent in Europe, corresponding to widely deployed resistance genes. The highest diversity was observed in South Asian populations, where frequent recombination has been reported, and no particular race was predominant in this area. The results are discussed in light of the role of invasions in shaping pathogen population across geographical regions. The results emphasized the lack of predictability of emergence of new races with high epidemic potential, which stresses the need for additional investments in population biology and surveillance activities of pathogens on global food crops, and assessments of disease vulnerability of host varieties prior to their deployment at larger scales.
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- Sajid Ali
- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Regional Cereal Rust Research Centre, Aegean Agricultural Research Instituteİzmir, Turkey
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYTAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Centre, Aarhus UniversitySlagelse, Denmark
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Berlin A, Samils B, Andersson B. Multiple genotypes within aecial clusters in Puccinia graminis and Puccinia coronata: improved understanding of the biology of cereal rust fungi. Fungal Biol Biotechnol 2017; 4:3. [PMID: 28955472 PMCID: PMC5611640 DOI: 10.1186/s40694-017-0032-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cereal rust fungi (Puccinia spp.) are among the most economically important plant pathogens. These fungi have a complex life cycle, including five spore stages and two hosts. They infect one grass host on which they reproduce clonally and cause the cereal rust diseases, while the alternate host is required for sexual reproduction. Although previous studies clearly demonstrate the importance of the alternate host in creating genetic diversity in cereal rust fungi, little is known about the amount of novel genotypes created in each successful completion of a sexual reproduction event. RESULTS In this study, single sequence repeat markers were used to study the genotypic diversity within aecial clusters by genotyping individual aecial cups. Two common cereal rusts, Puccinia graminis causing stem rust and Puccinia coronata the causal agent of crown rust were investigated. We showed that under natural conditions, a single aecial cluster usually include several genotypes, either because a single pycnial cluster is fertilized by several different pycniospores, or because aecia within the cluster are derived from more than one fertilized adjoining pycnial cluster, or a combination of both. CONCLUSION Our results imply that although sexual events in cereal rust fungi in most regions of the world are relatively rare, the events that occur may still significantly contribute to the genetic variation within the pathogen populations.
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- Anna Berlin
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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El Jarroudi M, Kouadio L, Bock CH, El Jarroudi M, Junk J, Pasquali M, Maraite H, Delfosse P. A Threshold-Based Weather Model for Predicting Stripe Rust Infection in Winter Wheat. PLANT DISEASE 2017; 101:693-703. [PMID: 30678577 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-12-16-1766-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Wheat stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) is a major threat in most wheat growing regions worldwide, which potentially causes substantial yield losses when environmental conditions are favorable. Data from 1999 to 2015 for three representative wheat-growing sites in Luxembourg were used to develop a threshold-based weather model for predicting wheat stripe rust. First, the range of favorable weather conditions using a Monte Carlo simulation method based on the Dennis model were characterized. Then, the optimum combined favorable weather variables (air temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall) during the most critical infection period (May-June) was identified and was used to develop the model. Uninterrupted hours with such favorable weather conditions over each dekad (i.e., 10-day period) during May-June were also considered when building the model. Results showed that a combination of relative humidity >92% and 4°C < temperature < 16°C for a minimum of 4 continuous hours, associated with rainfall ≤0.1 mm (with the dekad having these conditions for 5 to 20% of the time), were optimum to the development of a wheat stripe rust epidemic. The model accurately predicted infection events: probabilities of detection were ≥0.90 and false alarm ratios were ≤0.38 on average, and critical success indexes ranged from 0.63 to 1. The method is potentially applicable to studies of other economically important fungal diseases of other crops or in different geographical locations. If weather forecasts are available, the threshold-based weather model can be integrated into an operational warning system to guide fungicide applications.
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- Moussa El Jarroudi
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Management, Université de Liège, Arlon, B-6700 Belgium
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- International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service SEFTNRL, Byron, GA 31008
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- Laboratory of Mathematics and Applications, Department of Mathematics, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tangier, Morocco
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- Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, L-4422 Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milano, Milan 20233, Italy
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- Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348 Belgium
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- Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, L-4422 Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
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Rodriguez-Algaba J, Sørensen CK, Labouriau R, Justesen AF, Hovmøller MS. Genetic diversity within and among aecia of the wheat rust fungus Puccinia striiformis on the alternate host Berberis vulgaris. Fungal Biol 2017; 121:541-549. [PMID: 28606349 DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2017.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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An isolate of the fungus Puccinia striiformis, causing yellow (stripe) rust on cereals and grasses, was selfed on the alternate (sexual) host, Berberis vulgaris. This enabled us to investigate genetic variability of progeny isolates within and among aecia. Nine aecial clusters each consisting of an aecium (single aecial cup) and nine clusters containing multiple aecial cups were selected from 18 B. vulgaris leaves. Aeciospores from each cluster were inoculated on susceptible wheat seedlings and 64 progeny isolates were recovered. Molecular genotyping using 37 simple sequence repeat markers confirmed the parental origin of all progeny isolates. Thirteen molecular markers, which were heterozygous in the parental isolate, were used to analyse genetic diversity within and among aecial cups. The 64 progeny isolates resulted in 22 unique recombinant multilocus genotypes and none of them were resampled in different aecial clusters. Isolates derived from a single cup were always of the same genotype whereas isolates originating from clusters containing up to nine aecial cups revealed one to three genotypes per cluster. These results implied that each aecium was the result of a successful fertilization in a corresponding pycnium and that an aecium consisted of genetically identical aeciospores probably multiplied via repetitive mitotic divisions. Furthermore, the results suggested that aecia within a cluster were the result of independent fertilization events often involving genetically different pycniospores. The application of molecular markers represented a major advance in comparison to previous studies depending on phenotypic responses on host plants. The study allowed significant conclusions about fundamental aspects of the biology and genetics of an important cereal rust fungus.
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- Julian Rodriguez-Algaba
- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark.
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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Schwessinger B. Fundamental wheat stripe rust research in the 21 st century. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 213:1625-1631. [PMID: 27575735 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Contents 1625 I. 1625 II. 1626 III. 1626 IV. 1626 V. 1628 VI. 1629 VII. 1629 1630 References 1630 SUMMARY: In the 21st century, the wheat stripe rust fungus has evolved to be the largest biotic limitation to global wheat production. New pathogen genotypes are more aggressive and able to infect previously resistant wheat varieties, leading to rapid pathogen migration across and between continents. We now know the full life cycle, microevolutionary relationships and past migration routes on a global scale. Current sequencing technologies have provided the first fungal draft genomes and simplified plant resistance gene cloning. Yet, we know nothing about the molecular and microevolutionary mechanisms that facilitate the infection process and cause new devastating pathogen races. These are the questions that need to be addressed by exploiting the synergies between novel 21st century biology tools and decades of dedicated pathology work.
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- Benjamin Schwessinger
- The Australian National University, Research School Biology, 134 Linnaeus Way, Acton, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Comparative Analysis Highlights Variable Genome Content of Wheat Rusts and Divergence of the Mating Loci. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2017; 7:361-376. [PMID: 27913634 PMCID: PMC5295586 DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.032797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Three members of the Puccinia genus, Pucciniatriticina (Pt), Pstriiformis f.sp. tritici (Pst), and Pgraminis f.sp. tritici (Pgt), cause the most common and often most significant foliar diseases of wheat. While similar in biology and life cycle, each species is uniquely adapted and specialized. The genomes of Pt and Pst were sequenced and compared to that of Pgt to identify common and distinguishing gene content, to determine gene variation among wheat rust pathogens, other rust fungi, and basidiomycetes, and to identify genes of significance for infection. Pt had the largest genome of the three, estimated at 135 Mb with expansion due to mobile elements and repeats encompassing 50.9% of contig bases; in comparison, repeats occupy 31.5% for Pst and 36.5% for Pgt We find all three genomes are highly heterozygous, with Pst [5.97 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)/kb] nearly twice the level detected in Pt (2.57 SNPs/kb) and that previously reported for Pgt Of 1358 predicted effectors in Pt, 784 were found expressed across diverse life cycle stages including the sexual stage. Comparison to related fungi highlighted the expansion of gene families involved in transcriptional regulation and nucleotide binding, protein modification, and carbohydrate degradation enzymes. Two allelic homeodomain pairs, HD1 and HD2, were identified in each dikaryotic Puccinia species along with three pheromone receptor (STE3) mating-type genes, two of which are likely representing allelic specificities. The HD proteins were active in a heterologous Ustilago maydis mating assay and host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) of the HD and STE3 alleles reduced wheat host infection.
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Ali S, Khan MR, Gautier A, Swati ZA, Walter S. Microsatellite Genotyping of the Wheat Yellow Rust Pathogen Puccinia striiformis. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1659:59-70. [PMID: 28856641 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7249-4_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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To combat the ever-increasing threat of wheat yellow rust worldwide, understanding of the pathogen (Puccinia striiformis) population biology is indispensable. Molecular markers, particularly microsatellites, have been reported to be important tools for deciphering pathogen population structure, invasion sources, and migration history. The utility of these DNA-based markers and sequencing has been increased by the direct DNA extraction from infected leaves with subsequent multiplex-based SSR genotyping. In this chapter we describe the protocol for direct DNA extraction and its genotyping with microsatellite markers in multiplex reactions. We describe the procedure for allele scoring, and various troubles faced during microsatellite scoring and potential solutions for them.
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- Sajid Ali
- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, 25130, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, 25130, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- UMR BIOGER, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, 25130, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Singh RP, Singh PK, Rutkoski J, Hodson DP, He X, Jørgensen LN, Hovmøller MS, Huerta-Espino J. Disease Impact on Wheat Yield Potential and Prospects of Genetic Control. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 54:303-22. [PMID: 27296137 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080615-095835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Wheat is grown worldwide in diverse geographical regions, environments, and production systems. Although many diseases and pests are known to reduce grain yield potential and quality, the three rusts and powdery mildew fungi have historically caused major crop losses and continue to remain economically important despite the widespread use of host resistance and fungicides. The evolution and fast spread of virulent and more aggressive race lineages of rust fungi have only worsened the situation. Fusarium head blight, leaf spotting diseases, and, more recently, wheat blast (in South America and Bangladesh) have become diseases of major importance in recent years largely because of intensive production systems, the expansion of conservation agriculture, undesirable crop rotations, or increased dependency on fungicides. High genetic diversity for race-specific and quantitative resistance is known for most diseases; their selection through phenotyping reinforced with molecular strategies offers great promise in achieving more durable resistance and enhancing global wheat productivity.
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- Ravi P Singh
- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 06600, Mexico, DF, Mexico;
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 06600, Mexico, DF, Mexico;
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 06600, Mexico, DF, Mexico;
- Department of Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 06600, Mexico, DF, Mexico;
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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Zhao J, Wang M, Chen X, Kang Z. Role of Alternate Hosts in Epidemiology and Pathogen Variation of Cereal Rusts. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 54:207-28. [PMID: 27296143 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080615-095851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cereal rusts, caused by obligate and biotrophic fungi in the genus Puccinia, are important diseases that threaten world food security. With the recent discovery of alternate hosts for the stripe rust fungus (Puccinia striiformis), all cereal rust fungi are now known to be heteroecious, requiring two distinct plant species serving as primary or alternate hosts to complete their sexual life cycle. The roles of the alternate hosts in disease epidemiology and pathogen variation vary greatly from species to species and from region to region because of different climatic and cropping conditions. We focus this review on rust fungi of small grains, mainly stripe rust, stem rust, leaf rust, and crown rust of wheat, barley, oat, rye, and triticale, with emphases on the contributions of alternate hosts to the development and management of rust diseases.
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- Jie Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China;
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6430
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6430;
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China;
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Walter S, Ali S, Kemen E, Nazari K, Bahri BA, Enjalbert J, Hansen JG, Brown JK, Sicheritz‐Pontén T, Jones J, de Vallavieille‐Pope C, Hovmøller MS, Justesen AF. Molecular markers for tracking the origin and worldwide distribution of invasive strains of Puccinia striiformis. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:2790-804. [PMID: 27066253 PMCID: PMC4800029 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2015] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Investigating the origin and dispersal pathways is instrumental to mitigate threats and economic and environmental consequences of invasive crop pathogens. In the case of Puccinia striiformis causing yellow rust on wheat, a number of economically important invasions have been reported, e.g., the spreading of two aggressive and high temperature adapted strains to three continents since 2000. The combination of sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers, which were developed from two specific AFLP fragments, differentiated the two invasive strains, PstS1 and PstS2 from all other P. striiformis strains investigated at a worldwide level. The application of the SCAR markers on 566 isolates showed that PstS1 was present in East Africa in the early 1980s and then detected in the Americas in 2000 and in Australia in 2002. PstS2 which evolved from PstS1 became widespread in the Middle East and Central Asia. In 2000, PstS2 was detected in Europe, where it never became prevalent. Additional SSR genotyping and virulence phenotyping revealed 10 and six variants, respectively, within PstS1 and PstS2, demonstrating the evolutionary potential of the pathogen. Overall, the results suggested East Africa as the most plausible origin of the two invasive strains. The SCAR markers developed in the present study provide a rapid, inexpensive, and efficient tool to track the distribution of P. striiformis invasive strains, PstS1 and PstS2.
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- Stephanie Walter
- Department of AgroecologyAarhus UniversityFlakkebjergDK‐4200SlagelseDenmark
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- Department of AgroecologyAarhus UniversityFlakkebjergDK‐4200SlagelseDenmark
- Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic EngineeringThe University of Agriculture, Peshawar25000PeshawarPakistan
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
- Present address: Eric Kemen Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding ResearchCarl‐von‐Linné‐Weg 1050829CologneGermany
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- ICARDARegional Cereal Rust Research CentreAegean Agricultural Research Institute P.K. 9Menemen/İZMİRTurkey
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- National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia (INAT)Avenue Charles Nicolle43 TN‐1082 El MahrajèneTunisia
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- INRA UMR 320 Génétique VégétaleFerme du MoulonF‐91190Gif sur YvetteFrance
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- Department of AgroecologyAarhus UniversityFlakkebjergDK‐4200SlagelseDenmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence AnalysisDepartment of Systems BiologyTechnical University of DenmarkBuilding 208DK‐2800Kongens LyngbyDenmark
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
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Cheng P, Chen XM, See DR. Grass Hosts Harbor More Diverse Isolates of Puccinia striiformis Than Cereal Crops. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 106:362-371. [PMID: 26667189 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-15-0155-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis causes stripe rust on cereal crops and many grass species. However, it is not clear whether the stripe rust populations on grasses are able to infect cereal crops and how closely they are related to each other. In this study, 103 isolates collected from wheat, barley, triticale, rye, and grasses in the United States were characterized by virulence tests and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Of 69 pathotypes identified, 41 were virulent on some differentials of wheat only, 10 were virulent on some differentials of barley only, and 18 were virulent on some differentials of both wheat and barley. These pathotypes were clustered into three groups: group one containing isolates from wheat, triticale, rye, and grasses; group two isolates were from barley and grasses; and group three isolates were from grasses and wheat. SSR markers identified 44 multilocus genotypes (MLGs) and clustered them into three major molecular groups (MG) with MLGs in MG3 further classified into three subgroups. Isolates from cereal crops were present in one or more of the major or subgroups, but not all, whereas grass isolates were present in all of the major and subgroups. The results indicate that grasses harbor more diverse isolates of P. striiformis than the cereals.
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- First, second, and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and second and third authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First, second, and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and second and third authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- First, second, and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and second and third authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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Ali S, Soubeyrand S, Gladieux P, Giraud T, Leconte M, Gautier A, Mboup M, Chen W, de Vallavieille-Pope C, Enjalbert J. cloncase: Estimation of sex frequency and effective population size by clonemate resampling in partially clonal organisms. Mol Ecol Resour 2016; 16:845-61. [DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Revised: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sajid Ali
- UMR1290, BIOGER; INRA-AgroParisTech; BP01 78850 Thiverval-Grignon France
- Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering; the University of Agriculture, Peshawar; 25000 Peshawar Pakistan
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- UR546 Biostatistics and Spatial Processes; INRA; 84914 Avignon France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution; CNRS; Univ. Paris-Sud; AgroParisTech; Université Paris-Saclay; 91400 Orsay France
- UMR385 Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite; CIRAD; INRA; F-34398 Montpellier France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution; CNRS; Univ. Paris-Sud; AgroParisTech; Université Paris-Saclay; 91400 Orsay France
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- UMR1290, BIOGER; INRA-AgroParisTech; BP01 78850 Thiverval-Grignon France
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- UMR1290, BIOGER; INRA-AgroParisTech; BP01 78850 Thiverval-Grignon France
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- DuPont de Nemours (France) SAS Crop Protection - European Research & Development Center; 24, rue du Moulin 68740 Nambsheim France
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests; Institute of Plant Protection; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road Beijing 100193 China
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution; CNRS; Univ. Paris-Sud; AgroParisTech; Université Paris-Saclay; 91400 Orsay France
- GQE - Le Moulon; INRA; Univ. Paris-Sud; CNRS; AgroParisTech; Université Paris-Saclay; F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette France
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Tian Y, Zhan G, Chen X, Tungruentragoon A, Lu X, Zhao J, Huang L, Kang Z. Virulence and Simple Sequence Repeat Marker Segregation in a Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Population Produced by Selfing a Chinese Isolate on Berberis shensiana. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 106:185-91. [PMID: 26551448 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-15-0162-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the causal agent of wheat stripe rust, frequently produces new races overcoming resistance in wheat cultivars. A recently identified race, V26 with virulence to Yr26 and many other stripe rust resistance genes, has a high potential to cause epidemics in China. In this study, teliospores from a single-urediniospore isolate of V26 (Pinglan 17-7) produced on the wheat line 92R137 (Yr26) were used to produce a sexual population through selfing by infecting Berberis shensiana plants under controlled conditions. One hundred and eighteen progeny isolates and the parental isolate were phenotyped for virulence/avirulence on 24 Yr gene lines of wheat. These progeny isolates were all avirulent to Yr5, Yr8, Yr15, and YrTr1 and virulent to Yr1, Yr2, Yr7, Yr9, Yr10, Yr17, Yr24, Yr25, Yr26, YrA, YrExp2, and YrV23, indicating that the parental isolate is homozygous avirulent or homozygous virulent at these loci. The progeny population segregated for avirulence to Yr6, Yr43, and YrSP at one locus (3 avirulent:1 virulent ratio); for virulence to Yr27 and Yr28 at one locus (3 virulent:1 avirulent); and for Yr4, Yr32, and Yr44 at two loci (15 virulent:1 avirulent). Among the eight segregating avirulence/virulence loci, association was found between virulence to Yr4 and Yr32, as well as between virulence to Yr6 and Yr43 based on χ(2) tests. From 82 genotypically different progeny isolates, 24 pathotypes and 82 multilocus genotypes were identified. The results show that a highly diverse population can be produced from a single isolate by selfing on a barberry plant and sexually produced population can be used to genetically characterize virulence of the stripe rust pathogen.
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- Yuan Tian
- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- First, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth authors: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China; and third author: USDA-ARS, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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Thach T, Ali S, de Vallavieille-Pope C, Justesen A, Hovmøller M. Worldwide population structure of the wheat rust fungus Puccinia striiformis in the past. Fungal Genet Biol 2016; 87:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2015] [Revised: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Wang MN, Chen XM. Barberry Does Not Function as an Alternate Host for Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the U. S. Pacific Northwest Due to Teliospore Degradation and Barberry Phenology. PLANT DISEASE 2015; 99:1500-1506. [PMID: 30695954 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-12-14-1280-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Sexual reproduction of the stem rust pathogen, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), on barberry (Berberis vulgaris) has been shown to provide initial inoculum for the development of the disease on wheat and barley and also generate diverse races of the pathogen. However, in our previous study, the stripe rust pathogen, P. striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), was not found on barberry in the U. S. Pacific Northwest. To determine why Pgt is able to infect the alternate host, while Pst cannot under the natural conditions, the viabilities of teliospores of both Pgt and Pst were investigated from 2011 to 2014 by determining the germination rates using telial samples collected periodically from wheat fields. Teliospores of Pst usually produced in July were physically degraded during winter, and their germination rate decreased from 50 to 90% in August to less than 1% in the following March and no germination after May. In contrast, Pgt teliospores usually produced in July and August remained physically intact and physiologically dormant, and could not germinate until February. Germination of Pgt teliospores gradually increased to 90% in May, at which time young leaves of barberry were susceptible to infection. In addition, a time-series experiment was conducted for inoculation of barberry plants with Pst teliospores. The results showed that Pst teliospores need a minimum of 32 h continual dew-forming conditions to infect barberry, and infection reaches a peak after incubation of inoculated plants for 88 h. The lack of a prolonged period of leaf wetness conditions during the season of telial maturity effectively negates Pst infection of barberry plants in the Pacific Northwest.
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- M N Wang
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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- USDA-ARS, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology, and Disease Research Unit, and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430
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Milus EA, Lee KD, Brown-Guedira G. Characterization of Stripe Rust Resistance in Wheat Lines with Resistance Gene Yr17 and Implications for Evaluating Resistance and Virulence. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2015; 105:1123-1130. [PMID: 25775101 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-11-14-0304-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, has been the most important foliar wheat disease in south central United States since 2000 when a new strain of the pathogen emerged. The resistance gene Yr17 was used by many breeding programs to develop resistant cultivars. Although Yr17 was classified as a seedling (all-stage) resistance gene conferring a low infection type, seedlings with Yr17 frequently had intermediate to high infection types when inoculated with isolates that caused little or no disease on adult plants of the same wheat lines. The objectives of this study were to determine how to best evaluate Yr17 resistance in wheat lines and to determine which factors made seedling tests involving Yr17 so variable. Stripe rust reactions on wheat seedlings with Yr17 were influenced by temperature, wheat genotype, pathogen isolate, and the leaf (first or second) used to assess the seedling reaction. The most critical factors for accurately evaluating Yr17 reactions at the seedling stage were to avoid night temperatures below 12°C, to use the first leaf to assess the seedling reaction, to use multiple differentials with Yr17 and known avirulent, partially virulent and virulent isolates as controls, and to recognize that intermediate infection types likely represent a level of partial virulence in the pathogen that is insufficient to cause disease on adult plants in the field.
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- Eugene A Milus
- First and second authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and third author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695
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- First and second authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and third author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695
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- First and second authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and third author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695
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Luo H, Wang X, Zhan G, Wei G, Zhou X, Zhao J, Huang L, Kang Z. Genome-Wide Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats and Efficient Development of Polymorphic SSR Markers Based on Whole Genome Re-Sequencing of Multiple Isolates of the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130362. [PMID: 26068192 PMCID: PMC4467034 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The biotrophic parasitic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) causes stripe rust, a devastating disease of wheat, endangering global food security. Because the Pst population is highly dynamic, it is difficult to develop wheat cultivars with durable and highly effective resistance. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are widely used as molecular markers in genetic studies to determine population structure in many organisms. However, only a small number of SSR markers have been developed for Pst. In this study, a total of 4,792 SSR loci were identified using the whole genome sequences of six isolates from different regions of the world, with a marker density of one SSR per 22.95 kb. The majority of the SSRs were di- and tri-nucleotide repeats. A database containing 1,113 SSR markers were established. Through in silico comparison, the previously reported SSR markers were found mainly in exons, whereas the SSR markers in the database were mostly in intergenic regions. Furthermore, 105 polymorphic SSR markers were confirmed in silico by their identical positions and nucleotide variations with INDELs identified among the six isolates. When 104 in silico polymorphic SSR markers were used to genotype 21 Pst isolates, 84 produced the target bands, and 82 of them were polymorphic and revealed the genetic relationships among the isolates. The results show that whole genome re-sequencing of multiple isolates provides an ideal resource for developing SSR markers, and the newly developed SSR markers are useful for genetic and population studies of the wheat stripe rust fungus.
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- Huaiyong Luo
- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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Luo H, Wang X, Zhan G, Wei G, Zhou X, Zhao J, Huang L, Kang Z. Genome-Wide Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats and Efficient Development of Polymorphic SSR Markers Based on Whole Genome Re-Sequencing of Multiple Isolates of the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus. PLoS One 2015. [PMID: 26448643 DOI: 10.1145/2818302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1200] [Impact Index Per Article: 133.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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The biotrophic parasitic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) causes stripe rust, a devastating disease of wheat, endangering global food security. Because the Pst population is highly dynamic, it is difficult to develop wheat cultivars with durable and highly effective resistance. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are widely used as molecular markers in genetic studies to determine population structure in many organisms. However, only a small number of SSR markers have been developed for Pst. In this study, a total of 4,792 SSR loci were identified using the whole genome sequences of six isolates from different regions of the world, with a marker density of one SSR per 22.95 kb. The majority of the SSRs were di- and tri-nucleotide repeats. A database containing 1,113 SSR markers were established. Through in silico comparison, the previously reported SSR markers were found mainly in exons, whereas the SSR markers in the database were mostly in intergenic regions. Furthermore, 105 polymorphic SSR markers were confirmed in silico by their identical positions and nucleotide variations with INDELs identified among the six isolates. When 104 in silico polymorphic SSR markers were used to genotype 21 Pst isolates, 84 produced the target bands, and 82 of them were polymorphic and revealed the genetic relationships among the isolates. The results show that whole genome re-sequencing of multiple isolates provides an ideal resource for developing SSR markers, and the newly developed SSR markers are useful for genetic and population studies of the wheat stripe rust fungus.
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- Huaiyong Luo
- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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