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Lubega J, Figueroa M, Dodds PN, Kanyuka K. Comparative Analysis of the Avirulence Effectors Produced by the Fungal Stem Rust Pathogen of Wheat. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2024; 37:171-178. [PMID: 38170736 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-10-23-0169-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Crops are constantly exposed to pathogenic microbes. Rust fungi are examples of these harmful microorganisms, which have a major economic impact on wheat production. To protect themselves from pathogens like rust fungi, plants employ a multilayered immune system that includes immunoreceptors encoded by resistance genes. Significant efforts have led to the isolation of numerous resistance genes against rust fungi in cereals, especially in wheat. However, the evolution of virulence of rust fungi hinders the durability of resistance genes as a strategy for crop protection. Rust fungi, like other biotrophic pathogens, secrete an arsenal of effectors to facilitate infection, and these are the molecules that plant immunoreceptors target for pathogen recognition and mounting defense responses. When recognized, these effector proteins are referred to as avirulence (Avr) effectors. Despite the many predicted effectors in wheat rust fungi, only five Avr genes have been identified, all from wheat stem rust. Knowledge of the Avr genes and their variation in the fungal population will inform deployment of the most appropriate wheat disease-resistance genes for breeding and farming. The review provides an overview of methodologies as well as the validation techniques that have been used to characterize Avr effectors from wheat stem rust. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY 4.0 International license.
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- Jibril Lubega
- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge CB3 0LE, U.K
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Agriculture and Food, Canberra 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Agriculture and Food, Canberra 2601, Australia
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge CB3 0LE, U.K
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Hewitt TC, Henningsen EC, Pereira D, McElroy K, Nazareno ES, Dugyala S, Nguyen-Phuc H, Li F, Miller ME, Visser B, Pretorius ZA, Boshoff WHP, Sperschneider J, Stukenbrock EH, Kianian SF, Dodds PN, Figueroa M. Genome-Enabled Analysis of Population Dynamics and Virulence-Associated Loci in the Oat Crown Rust Fungus Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2024; 37:290-303. [PMID: 37955552 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-09-23-0126-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca) is an important fungal pathogen causing crown rust that impacts oat production worldwide. Genetic resistance for crop protection against Pca is often overcome by the rapid virulence evolution of the pathogen. This study investigated the factors shaping adaptive evolution of Pca using pathogen populations from distinct geographic regions within the United States and South Africa. Phenotypic and genome-wide sequencing data of these diverse Pca collections, including 217 isolates, uncovered phylogenetic relationships and established distinct genetic composition between populations from northern and southern regions from the United States and South Africa. The population dynamics of Pca involve a bidirectional movement of inoculum between northern and southern regions of the United States and contributions from clonality and sexuality. The population from South Africa is solely clonal. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) employing a haplotype-resolved Pca reference genome was used to define 11 virulence-associated loci corresponding to 25 oat differential lines. These regions were screened to determine candidate Avr effector genes. Overall, the GWAS results allowed us to identify the underlying genetic factors controlling pathogen recognition in an oat differential set used in the United States to assign pathogen races (pathotypes). Key GWAS findings support complex genetic interactions in several oat lines, suggesting allelism among resistance genes or redundancy of genes included in the differential set, multiple resistance genes recognizing genetically linked Avr effector genes, or potentially epistatic relationships. A careful evaluation of the composition of the oat differential set accompanied by the development or implementation of molecular markers is recommended. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Tim C Hewitt
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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Rodriguez-Algaba J, Villegas D, Cantero-Martínez C, Patpour M, Berlin A, Hovmøller MS, Jin Y, Justesen AF. Recombination in the wheat stem rust pathogen mediated by an indigenous barberry species in Spain. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 14:1322406. [PMID: 38293628 PMCID: PMC10825791 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1322406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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The comeback of wheat stem rust in Europe, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, and the prevalence of the alternate (sexual) host in local areas have recently regained attention as a potential threat to European wheat production. The aim of this study was to investigate a potential epidemiological link between the aecia found on an indigenous barberry species and stem rust infections on nearby cereals and grasses. Aecial infections collected from Berberis vulgaris subsp. seroi were inoculated on a panel of susceptible genotypes of major cereal crop species. In total, 67 stem rust progeny isolates were recovered from wheat (51), barley (7), and rye (9), but none from oat, indicating the potential of barberry derived isolates to infect multiple cereals. Molecular genotyping of the progeny isolates and 20 cereal and grass stem rust samples collected at the same locations and year, revealed a clear genetic relatedness between the progeny isolated from barberry and the stem rust infections found on nearby cereal and grass hosts. Analysis of Molecular Variance indicated that variation between the stem rust populations accounted for only 1%. A Principal Components Analysis using the 62 detected multilocus genotypes also demonstrated a low degree of genetic variation among isolates belonging to the two stem rust populations. Lastly, pairwise comparisons based on fixation index (Fst), Nei's genetic distances and number of effective migrants (Nm) revealed low genetic differentiation and high genetic exchange between the two populations. Our results demonstrated a direct epidemiological link and functionality of an indigenous barberry species as the sexual host of P. graminis in Spain, a factor that should be considered when designing future strategies to prevent stem rust in Europe and beyond.
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- Julian Rodriguez-Algaba
- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Sustainable Field Crops, IRTA, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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Savary S. A Global Assessment of the State of Plant Health. PLANT DISEASE 2023; 107:3649-3665. [PMID: 37172970 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-01-23-0166-fe] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The Global Plant Health Assessment (GPHA) is a collective, volunteer-based effort to assemble expert opinions on plant health and disease impacts on ecosystem services based on published scientific evidence. The GPHA considers a range of forest, agricultural, and urban systems worldwide. These are referred to as (Ecoregion × Plant System), i.e., selected case examples involving keystone plants in given parts of the world. The GPHA focuses on infectious plant diseases and plant pathogens, but encompasses the abiotic (e.g., temperature, drought, and floods) and other biotic (e.g., animal pests and humans) factors associated with plant health. Among the 33 (Ecoregion × Plant System) considered, 18 are assessed as in fair or poor health, and 20 as in declining health. Much of the observed state of plant health and its trends are driven by a combination of forces, including climate change, species invasions, and human management. Healthy plants ensure (i) provisioning (food, fiber, and material), (ii) regulation (climate, atmosphere, water, and soils), and (iii) cultural (recreation, inspiration, and spiritual) ecosystem services. All these roles that plants play are threatened by plant diseases. Nearly none of these three ecosystem services are assessed as improving. Results indicate that the poor state of plant health in sub-Saharan Africa gravely contributes to food insecurity and environmental degradation. Results further call for the need to improve crop health to ensure food security in the most populated parts of the world, such as in South Asia, where the poorest of the poor, the landless farmers, are at the greatest risk. The overview of results generated from this work identifies directions for future research to be championed by a new generation of scientists and revived public extension services. Breakthroughs from science are needed to (i) gather more data on plant health and its consequences, (ii) identify collective actions to manage plant systems, (iii) exploit the phytobiome diversity in breeding programs, (iv) breed for plant genotypes with resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses, and (v) design and implement plant systems involving the diversity required to ensure their adaptation to current and growing challenges, including climate change and pathogen invasions.
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- Serge Savary
- National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (INRAE), Paris, France
- Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India
- University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, U.S.A
- ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands
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Sperschneider J, Hewitt T, Lewis DC, Periyannan S, Milgate AW, Hickey LT, Mago R, Dodds PN, Figueroa M. Nuclear exchange generates population diversity in the wheat leaf rust pathogen Puccinia triticina. Nat Microbiol 2023; 8:2130-2141. [PMID: 37884814 PMCID: PMC10627818 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01494-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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In clonally reproducing dikaryotic rust fungi, non-sexual processes such as somatic nuclear exchange are postulated to play a role in diversity but have been difficult to detect due to the lack of genome resolution between the two haploid nuclei. We examined three nuclear-phased genome assemblies of Puccinia triticina, which causes wheat leaf rust disease. We found that the most recently emerged Australian lineage was derived by nuclear exchange between two pre-existing lineages, which originated in Europe and North America. Haplotype-specific phylogenetic analysis reveals that repeated somatic exchange events have shuffled haploid nuclei between long-term clonal lineages, leading to a global P. triticina population representing different combinations of a limited number of haploid genomes. Thus, nuclear exchange seems to be the predominant mechanism generating diversity and the emergence of new strains in this otherwise clonal pathogen. Such genomics-accelerated surveillance of pathogen evolution paves the way for more accurate global disease monitoring.
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- Jana Sperschneider
- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Centre for Crop Health, The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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Maserumule M, Rauwane M, Madala NE, Ncube E, Figlan S. Defence-related metabolic changes in wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings in response to infection by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1166813. [PMID: 37377801 PMCID: PMC10292758 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1166813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Stem rust caused by the pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici is a destructive fungal disease-causing major grain yield losses in wheat. Therefore, understanding the plant defence regulation and function in response to the pathogen attack is required. As such, an untargeted LC-MS-based metabolomics approach was employed as a tool to dissect and understand the biochemical responses of Koonap (resistant) and Morocco (susceptible) wheat varieties infected with two different races of P. graminis (2SA88 [TTKSF] and 2SA107 [PTKST]). Data was generated from the infected and non-infected control plants harvested at 14- and 21- days post-inoculation (dpi), with 3 biological replicates per sample under a controlled environment. Chemo-metric tools such as principal component analysis (PCA), orthogonal projection to latent structures-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were used to highlight the metabolic changes using LC-MS data of the methanolic extracts generated from the two wheat varieties. Molecular networking in Global Natural Product Social (GNPS) was further used to analyse biological networks between the perturbed metabolites. PCA and OPLS-DA analysis showed cluster separations between the varieties, infection races and the time-points. Distinct biochemical changes were also observed between the races and time-points. Metabolites were identified and classified using base peak intensities (BPI) and single ion extracted chromatograms from samples, and the most affected metabolites included flavonoids, carboxylic acids and alkaloids. Network analysis also showed high expression of metabolites from thiamine and glyoxylate, such as flavonoid glycosides, suggesting multi-faceted defence response strategy by understudied wheat varieties towards P. graminis pathogen infection. Overall, the study provided the insights of the biochemical changes in the expression of wheat metabolites in response to stem rust infection.
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- Mercy Maserumule
- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Roodepoort, South Africa
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- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Roodepoort, South Africa
- Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, South Campus, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Agriculture and Engineering, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa
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- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Roodepoort, South Africa
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- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Roodepoort, South Africa
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Khursheed A, Rather MA, Jain V, Wani AR, Rasool S, Nazir R, Malik NA, Majid SA. Plant based natural products as potential ecofriendly and safer biopesticides: A comprehensive overview of their advantages over conventional pesticides, limitations and regulatory aspects. Microb Pathog 2022; 173:105854. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Olivera PD, Szabo LJ, Kokhmetova A, Morgounov A, Luster DG, Jin Y. Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Population Causing Recent Wheat Stem Rust Epidemics in Kazakhstan Is Highly Diverse and Includes Novel Virulence Pathotypes. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2022; 112:2403-2415. [PMID: 35671480 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-08-21-0320-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: 06/15/2023]
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Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a reemerging disease that caused severe epidemics in northern Kazakhstan and western Siberia in the period of 2015 to 2019. We analyzed 51 stem rust samples collected between 2015 and 2017 in five provinces in Kazakhstan. A total of 112 Pgt races were identified from 208 single-pustule isolates. These races are phenotypically and genotypically diverse, and most of them are likely of sexual origin. No differentiation of phenotypes and single-nucleotide polymorphism genotypes was observed between isolates from Akmola and North Kazakhstan provinces, supporting the idea of a wide dispersal of inoculum in the northern regions of the country. Similarities in virulence profiles with Pgt races previously reported in Siberia, Russia, suggest that northern Kazakhstan and western Siberia constitute a single stem rust epidemiological region. In addition to the races of sexual origin, six races reported in Europe, the Caucasus, and East Africa were detected in Kazakhstan, indicating that this epidemiological region is not isolated, and spore inflow from the west occurs. Virulence alone or in combination to several genes effective against the Ug99 race group was detected, including novel virulence on Sr32 + Sr40 and Sr47. The occurrence of a highly diverse Pgt population with virulence to an important group of Sr genes demonstrated the importance of the pathogen's sexual cycle in generating new and potentially damaging virulence combinations.
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- P D Olivera
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Ankara, Turkey
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- USDA-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Ft. Detrick, MD 21702, U.S.A
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement. Nat Genet 2022; 54:1544-1552. [DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01189-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Rodriguez-Algaba J, Hovmøller MS, Schulz P, Hansen JG, Lezáun JA, Joaquim J, Randazzo B, Czembor P, Zemeca L, Slikova S, Hanzalová A, Holdgate S, Wilderspin S, Mascher F, Suffert F, Leconte M, Flath K, Justesen AF. Stem rust on barberry species in Europe: Host specificities and genetic diversity. Front Genet 2022; 13:988031. [PMID: 36246643 PMCID: PMC9554944 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.988031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The increased emergence of cereal stem rust in southern and western Europe, caused by the pathogen Puccinia graminis, and the prevalence of alternate (sexual) host, Berberis species, have regained attention as the sexual host may serve as source of novel pathogen variability that may pose a threat to cereal supply. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the functional role of Berberis species in the current epidemiological situation of cereal stem rust in Europe. Surveys in 11 European countries were carried out from 2018 to 2020, where aecial infections from five barberry species were collected. Phylogenetic analysis of 121 single aecial clusters of diverse origin using the elongation factor 1-α gene indicated the presence of different special forms (aka formae speciales) of P. graminis adapted to different cereal and grass species. Inoculation studies using aecial clusters from Spain, United Kingdom, and Switzerland resulted in 533 stem rust isolates sampled from wheat, barley, rye, and oat, which confirmed the presence of multiple special forms of P. graminis. Microsatellite marker analysis of a subset of 192 sexually-derived isolates recovered on wheat, barley and rye from the three populations confirmed the generation of novel genetic diversity revealed by the detection of 135 multilocus genotypes. Discriminant analysis of principal components resulted in four genetic clusters, which grouped at both local and country level. Here, we demonstrated that a variety of Berberis species may serve as functional alternate hosts for cereal stem rust fungi and highlights the increased risks that the sexual cycle may pose to cereal production in Europe, which calls for new initiatives within rust surveillance, epidemiological research and resistance breeding.
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- Julian Rodriguez-Algaba
- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
- *Correspondence: Julian Rodriguez-Algaba,
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institut, Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Kleinmachnow, Germany
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- INTIA, Institute for Agrifood Technology and Infrastructures of Navarra, Villava, Navarra, Spain
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- Agroscope, Crop Plant Breeding and Genetic Ressources, Nyon, Switzerland
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- Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute-National Research Institute, Radzików, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Protection Research “Agrihorts”, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia
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- Crop Research Institute, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Methods, Prague, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Agroscope, Crop Plant Breeding and Genetic Ressources, Nyon, Switzerland
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- INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture Food and Environment), Université Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture Food and Environment), Université Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institut, Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Kleinmachnow, Germany
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- Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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Villegas D, Bartaula R, Cantero‐Martínez C, Luster D, Szabo L, Olivera P, Berlin A, Rodriguez‐Algaba J, Hovmøller MS, McIntosh R, Jin Y. Barberry plays an active role as an alternate host of Puccinia graminis in Spain. PLANT PATHOLOGY 2022; 71:1174-1184. [PMID: 35915821 PMCID: PMC9311844 DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis, is a destructive group of diseases. The pathogen uses Berberis species as alternate hosts to complete its life cycle. B. vulgaris and the endemic species B. hispanica and B. garciae are present in Spain. The objective of this study was to investigate the functionality of the indigenous barberry as alternate hosts. Field surveys were conducted in 2018 and 2019 in Huesca, Teruel and Albacete provinces of Spain. Aecial samples on barberry were analysed via infection assays and DNA analysis. B. garciae was predominant in Huesca and Teruel provinces, often found in the field margins of cereal crops. Aecial infections on B. garciae were observed in May and uredinial infections on cereal crops in June. Scattered B. hispanica bushes were occasionally found near cereal crops in Albacete, where aecial infections on B. hispanica were observed in June when most cereal crops were mature. Infection assays using aeciospores resulted in stem rust infections on susceptible genotypes of wheat, barley, rye and oat, indicating the presence of the sexual cycle for P. graminis f. sp. tritici, f. sp. secalis and f. sp. avenae. Sequence analyses from aecial samples supported this finding as well as the presence of Puccinia brachypodii. This study provides the first evidence that indigenous Berberis species play an active role in the sexual cycle of P. graminis under natural conditions in Spain.
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- Dolors Villegas
- IRTAInstitute of Agrifood Research and TechnologyLleidaSpain
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- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt PaulMNUSA
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- USDA‐ARS Foreign Disease‐Weed Science Research UnitFt DetrickMDUSA
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- USDA‐ARS Cereal Disease LaboratoryUniversity of MinnesotaSt PaulMNUSA
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- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt PaulMNUSA
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant PathologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- Department of AgroecologyGlobal Rust Reference CenterAarhus UniversitySlagelseDenmark
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- University of SydneyPlant Breeding InstituteSchool of Life and Environmental SciencesCobbittyNew South WalesAustralia
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- USDA‐ARS Cereal Disease LaboratoryUniversity of MinnesotaSt PaulMNUSA
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Salotti I, Bove F, Rossi V. Development and Validation of a Mechanistic, Weather-Based Model for Predicting Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Infections and Stem Rust Progress in Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:897680. [PMID: 35693159 PMCID: PMC9184802 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.897680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Stem rust (or black rust) of wheat, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a re-emerging, major threat to wheat production worldwide. Here, we retrieved, analyzed, and synthetized the available information about Pgt to develop a mechanistic, weather-driven model for predicting stem rust epidemics caused by uredospores. The ability of the model to predict the first infections in a season was evaluated using field data collected in three wheat-growing areas of Italy (Emilia-Romagna, Apulia, and Sardinia) from 2016 to 2021. The model showed good accuracy, with a posterior probability to correctly predict infections of 0.78 and a probability that there was no infection when not predicted of 0.96. The model's ability to predict disease progress during the growing season was also evaluated by using published data obtained from trials in Minnesota, United States, in 1968, 1978, and 1979, and in Pennsylvania, United States, in 1986. Comparison of observed versus predicted data generated a concordance correlation coefficient of 0.96 and an average distance between real data and the fitted line of 0.09. The model could therefore be considered accurate and reliable for predicting epidemics of wheat stem rust and could be tested for its ability to support risk-based control of the disease.
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- Irene Salotti
- Department of Sustainable Crop Production (DI.PRO.VES.), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
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- Department of Sustainable Crop Production (DI.PRO.VES.), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
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Tsushima A, Lewis CM, Flath K, Kildea S, Saunders DGO. Wheat stem rust recorded for the first time in decades in Ireland. PLANT PATHOLOGY 2022; 71:890-900. [PMID: 35873178 PMCID: PMC9303354 DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Wheat stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), occurs in most wheat-growing areas worldwide, and, in western Europe since 2013, has started to re-emerge after many decades of absence. Following this trend across western Europe, in 2020, we also detected and recorded wheat stem rust for the first time in five decades in experimental plots across five locations in Ireland. To examine the potential origin of the Irish Pgt infection in 2020, we carried out transcriptome sequencing on 12 Pgt-infected wheat samples collected across Ireland and compared these to 76 global P. graminis isolates. This analysis identified a close genetic relationship between the Irish Pgt isolates and those from Ethiopia collected in 2015 after a severe stem rust epidemic caused by the TKTTF Pgt race, and with the UK-01 Pgt isolate that was previously assigned to the TKTTF race. Subsequent pathology-based race profiling designated two Irish isolates and recent UK and French Pgt isolates to the TKTTF Pgt race group. This suggests that the Irish Pgt occurrence most probably originated from recent long-distance windborne dispersal of Pgt urediniospores from neighbouring countries in Europe where we confirmed the Pgt TKTTF race continues to be prevalent. The identification of wheat stem rust in Ireland at multiple locations in 2020 illustrates that the disease can occur in Ireland and emphasizes the need to re-initiate local monitoring for this re-emergent threat to wheat production across western Europe.
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- Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and GrasslandJulius‐Kuehn‐Institut (JKI)KleinmachnowGermany
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Shewabez E, Bekele E, Alemu A, Mugnai L, Tadesse W. Genetic characterization and genome-wide association mapping for stem rust resistance in spring bread wheat. BMC Genom Data 2022; 23:11. [PMID: 35164670 PMCID: PMC8845374 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-022-01030-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Background Emerging wheat stem rust races have become a major threat to global wheat production. Finding additional loci responsible for resistance to these races and incorporating them into currently cultivated varieties is the most economic and environmentally sound strategy to combat this problem. Thus, this study was aimed at characterizing the genetic diversity and identifying the genetic loci conferring resistance to the stem rust of wheat. To accomplish this, 245 elite lines introduced from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) were evaluated under natural stem rust pressure in the field at the Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia. The single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) marker data was retrieved from a 15 K SNP wheat array. A mixed linear model was used to investigate the association between SNP markers and the best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) values of the stem rust coefficient of infection (CI). Results Phenotypic analysis revealed that 46% of the lines had a coefficient of infection (CI) in a range of 0 to 19. Genome-wide average values of 0.38, 0.20, and 0.71 were recorded for Nei’s gene diversity, polymorphism information content, and major allele frequency, respectively. A total of 46 marker-trait associations (MTAs) encompassed within eleven quantitative trait loci (QTL) were detected on chromosomes 1B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, and 5A for CI. Two major QTLs with –log10 (p) ≥ 4 (EWYP1B.1 and EWYP1B.2) were discovered on chromosome 1B. Conclusions This study identified several novel markers associated with stem rust resistance in wheat with the potential to facilitate durable rust resistance development through marker-assisted selection. It is recommended that the resistant wheat genotypes identified in this study be used in the national wheat breeding programs to improve stem rust resistance. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12863-022-01030-4.
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Trivellone V, Hoberg EP, Boeger WA, Brooks DR. Food security and emerging infectious disease: risk assessment and risk management. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 9:211687. [PMID: 35223062 PMCID: PMC8847898 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Climate change, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and food security create a dangerous nexus. Habitat interfaces, assumed to be efficient buffers, are being disrupted by human activities which in turn accelerate the movement of pathogens. EIDs threaten directly and indirectly availability and access to nutritious food, affecting global security and human health. In the next 70 years, food-secure and food-insecure countries will face EIDs driving increasingly unsustainable costs of production, predicted to exceed national and global gross domestic products. Our modern challenge is to transform this business as usual and embrace an alternative vision of the biosphere formalized in the Stockholm paradigm (SP). First, a pathogen-centric focus shifts our vision of risk space, determining how pathogens circulate in realized and potential fitness space. Risk space and pathogen exchange are always heightened at habitat interfaces. Second, apply the document-assess-monitor-act (DAMA) protocol developing strategic data for EID risk, to be translated, synthesized and broadcast as actionable information. Risk management is realized through targeted interventions focused around information exchanged among a community of scientists, policy practitioners of food and public health security and local populations. Ultimately, SP and DAMA protect human rights, supporting food security, access to nutritious food, health interventions and environmental integrity.
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- Valeria Trivellone
- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53716, USA
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
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- Biological Interactions, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Cx Postal 19073, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (emeritus), Toronto, ON, Canada
- Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68588-0514, USA
- Institute for Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Karolina ut 29, Budapest, Hungary H-1113
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Patpour M, Hovmøller MS, Rodriguez-Algaba J, Randazzo B, Villegas D, Shamanin VP, Berlin A, Flath K, Czembor P, Hanzalova A, Sliková S, Skolotneva ES, Jin Y, Szabo L, Meyer KJG, Valade R, Thach T, Hansen JG, Justesen AF. Wheat Stem Rust Back in Europe: Diversity, Prevalence and Impact on Host Resistance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:882440. [PMID: 35720526 PMCID: PMC9202592 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.882440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The objective of this study was to investigate the re-emergence of a previously important crop pathogen in Europe, Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici, causing wheat stem rust. The pathogen has been insignificant in Europe for more than 60 years, but since 2016 it has caused epidemics on both durum wheat and bread wheat in local areas in southern Europe, and additional outbreaks in Central- and West Europe. The prevalence of three distinct genotypes/races in many areas, Clade III-B (TTRTF), Clade IV-B (TKTTF) and Clade IV-F (TKKTF), suggested clonal reproduction and evolution by mutation within these. None of these genetic groups and races, which likely originated from exotic incursions, were detected in Europe prior to 2016. A fourth genetic group, Clade VIII, detected in Germany (2013), was observed in several years in Central- and East Europe. Tests of representative European wheat varieties with prevalent races revealed high level of susceptibility. In contrast, high diversity with respect to virulence and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers were detected in local populations on cereals and grasses in proximity to Berberis species in Spain and Sweden, indicating that the alternate host may return as functional component of the epidemiology of wheat stem rust in Europe. A geographically distant population from Omsk and Novosibirsk in western Siberia (Russia) also revealed high genetic diversity, but clearly different from current European populations. The presence of Sr31-virulence in multiple and highly diverse races in local populations in Spain and Siberia stress that virulence may emerge independently when large geographical areas and time spans are considered and that Sr31-virulence is not unique to Ug99. All isolates of the Spanish populations, collected from wheat, rye and grass species, were succesfully recovered on wheat, which underline the plasticity of host barriers within P. graminis. The study demonstrated successful alignment of two genotyping approaches and race phenotyping methodologies employed by different laboratories, which also allowed us to line up with previous European and international studies of wheat stem rust. Our results suggest new initiatives within disease surveillance, epidemiological research and resistance breeding to meet current and future challenges by wheat stem rust in Europe and beyond.
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- Mehran Patpour
- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
- *Correspondence: Mogens S. Hovmøller,
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- Società Semplice Agricola Randazzo (AS.A.R.), Palermo, Italy
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- Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Plant Breeding & Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Radzików, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Methods, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czechia
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
- Annemarie F. Justesen,
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Aeciospore ejection in the rust pathogen Puccinia graminis is driven by moisture ingress. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1216. [PMID: 34686772 PMCID: PMC8536709 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02747-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Fungi have evolved an array of spore discharge and dispersal processes. Here, we developed a theoretical model that explains the ejection mechanics of aeciospore liberation in the stem rust pathogen Puccinia graminis. Aeciospores are released from cluster cups formed on its Berberis host, spreading early-season inoculum into neighboring small-grain crops. Our model illustrates that during dew or rainfall, changes in aeciospore turgidity exerts substantial force on neighboring aeciospores in cluster cups whilst gaps between spores become perfused with water. This perfusion coats aeciospores with a lubrication film that facilitates expulsion, with single aeciospores reaching speeds of 0.053 to 0.754 m·s-1. We also used aeciospore source strength estimates to simulate the aeciospore dispersal gradient and incorporated this into a publicly available web interface. This aids farmers and legislators to assess current local risk of dispersal and facilitates development of sophisticated epidemiological models to potentially curtail stem rust epidemics originating on Berberis.
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Miedaner T, Juroszek P. Climate change will influence disease resistance breeding in wheat in Northwestern Europe. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:1771-1785. [PMID: 33715023 PMCID: PMC8205889 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03807-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Wheat productivity is threatened by global climate change. In several parts of NW Europe it will get warmer and dryer during the main crop growing period. The resulting likely lower realized on-farm crop yields must be kept by breeding for resistance against already existing and emerging diseases among other measures. Multi-disease resistance will get especially crucial. In this review, we focus on disease resistance breeding approaches in wheat, especially related to rust diseases and Fusarium head blight, because simulation studies of potential future disease risk have shown that these diseases will be increasingly relevant in the future. The long-term changes in disease occurrence must inevitably lead to adjustments of future resistance breeding strategies, whereby stability and durability of disease resistance under heat and water stress will be important in the future. In general, it would be important to focus on non-temperature sensitive resistance genes/QTLs. To conclude, research on the effects of heat and drought stress on disease resistance reactions must be given special attention in the future.
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- Thomas Miedaner
- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Central Institute for Decision Support Systems in Crop Protection (ZEPP), 55545, Bad Kreuznach, Germany
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Fontaine MC, Labbé F, Dussert Y, Delière L, Richart-Cervera S, Giraud T, Delmotte F. Europe as a bridgehead in the worldwide invasion history of grapevine downy mildew, Plasmopara viticola. Curr Biol 2021; 31:2155-2166.e4. [PMID: 33770491 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Europe is the historical cradle of viticulture, but grapevines (Vitis vinifera) have been increasingly threatened by pathogens of American origin. The invasive oomycete Plasmopara viticola causes downy mildew, one of the most devastating grapevine diseases worldwide. Despite major economic consequences, its invasion history remains poorly understood. We analyzed a comprehensive dataset of ∼2,000 samples, collected from the most important wine-producing countries, using nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and microsatellite markers. Population genetic analyses revealed very low genetic diversity in invasive downy mildew populations worldwide and little evidence of admixture. All the invasive populations originated from only one of the five native North American lineages, the one parasitizing wild summer grape (V. aestivalis). An approximate Bayesian computation-random forest approach allowed inferring the worldwide invasion scenario of P. viticola. After an initial introduction into Europe, invasive European populations served as a secondary source of introduction into vineyards worldwide, including China, South Africa, and twice independently, Australia. Only the invasion of Argentina probably represents a tertiary introduction, from Australia. Our findings provide a striking example of a global pathogen invasion resulting from secondary dispersal of a successful invasive population. Our study will also help designing quarantine regulations and efficient breeding for resistance against grapevine downy mildew.
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- Michael C Fontaine
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103 CC, Groningen, the Netherlands; Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Orsay 91400, France; Laboratoire MIVEGEC (Université de Montpellier, CNRS 5290, IRD 229) et Centre de Recherche en Écologie et Évolution de la Santé (CREES), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), 34394 Montpellier, France.
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103 CC, Groningen, the Netherlands; Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Orsay 91400, France
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- SAVE, INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Université de Bordeaux, 33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- SAVE, INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Université de Bordeaux, 33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- SAVE, INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Université de Bordeaux, 33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Orsay 91400, France
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- SAVE, INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Université de Bordeaux, 33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France.
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Emerging infectious diseases threatening food security and economies in Africa. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Garcia-Ceron D, Bleackley MR, Anderson MA. Fungal Extracellular Vesicles in Pathophysiology. Subcell Biochem 2021; 97:151-177. [PMID: 33779917 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67171-6_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Fungal pathogens are a concern in medicine and agriculture that has been exacerbated by the emergence of antifungal-resistant varieties that severely threaten human and animal health, as well as food security. This had led to the search for new and sustainable treatments for fungal diseases. Innovative solutions require a deeper understanding of the interactions between fungal pathogens and their hosts, and the key determinants of fungal virulence. Recently, a link has emerged between the release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and fungal virulence that may contribute to finding new methods for fungal control. Fungal EVs carry pigments, carbohydrates, protein, nucleic acids and other macromolecules with similar functions as those found in EVs from other organisms, however certain fungal features, such as the fungal cell wall, impact EV release and cargo. Fungal EVs modulate immune responses in the host, have a role in cell-cell communication and transport molecules that function in virulence. Understanding the function of fungal EVs will expand our knowledge of host-pathogen interactions and may provide new and specific targets for antifungal drugs and agrichemicals.
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Jevtić R, Župunski V, Lalošević M, Jocković B, Orbović B, Ilin S. Diversity in susceptibility reactions of winter wheat genotypes to obligate pathogens under fluctuating climatic conditions. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19608. [PMID: 33184398 PMCID: PMC7665191 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76693-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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To date, studies have usually focused on the impact of abiotic factors on the distribution of plant pathogens and have built forecast models for the prediction of pathogen outbreaks. However, the impact of the combined effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the prevalence of economically important pathogens has usually been neglected. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between powdery mildew and rusts of wheat and to examine how the combined effects of abiotic and biotic factors influence their prevalence. The study was conducted in the period 2016-2019 using the collection of 2158 genotypes of winter wheat. The most influential factors on disease indices and relationships among obligate pathogens were determined using multiple regression models and principal component analysis. The possibility of the coexistence of different rust species in the same growing season and in the same field was shown. The significant influence of fluctuations in winter temperatures on changes in the prevalence of obligate pathogens was determined. The strong impact of genotypes and their reaction on climatic elements in certain phenological stages were shown to be significant factors influencing the interactions among obligate pathogens and the predominance of one pathogen over another.
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- Radivoje Jevtić
- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Small Grains Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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Latorre SM, Reyes-Avila CS, Malmgren A, Win J, Kamoun S, Burbano HA. Differential loss of effector genes in three recently expanded pandemic clonal lineages of the rice blast fungus. BMC Biol 2020; 18:88. [PMID: 32677941 PMCID: PMC7364606 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-00818-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding the mechanisms and timescales of plant pathogen outbreaks requires a detailed genome-scale analysis of their population history. The fungus Magnaporthe (Syn. Pyricularia) oryzae-the causal agent of blast disease of cereals- is among the most destructive plant pathogens to world agriculture and a major threat to the production of rice, wheat, and other cereals. Although M. oryzae is a multihost pathogen that infects more than 50 species of cereals and grasses, all rice-infecting isolates belong to a single genetically defined lineage. Here, we combined the two largest genomic datasets to reconstruct the genetic history of the rice-infecting lineage of M. oryzae based on 131 isolates from 21 countries. RESULTS The global population of the rice blast fungus consists mainly of three well-defined genetic groups and a diverse set of individuals. Multiple population genetic tests revealed that the rice-infecting lineage of the blast fungus probably originated from a recombining diverse group in Southeast Asia followed by three independent clonal expansions that took place over the last ~ 200 years. Patterns of allele sharing identified a subpopulation from the recombining diverse group that introgressed with one of the clonal lineages before its global expansion. Remarkably, the four genetic lineages of the rice blast fungus vary in the number and patterns of presence and absence of candidate effector genes. These genes encode secreted proteins that modulate plant defense and allow pathogen colonization. In particular, clonal lineages carry a reduced repertoire of effector genes compared with the diverse group, and specific combinations of presence and absence of effector genes define each of the pandemic clonal lineages. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses reconstruct the genetic history of the rice-infecting lineage of M. oryzae revealing three clonal lineages associated with rice blast pandemics. Each of these lineages displays a specific pattern of presence and absence of effector genes that may have shaped their adaptation to the rice host and their evolutionary history.
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- Sergio M Latorre
- Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
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- Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany.
- Centre for Life's Origin and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
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Leonova IN, Skolotneva ES, Orlova EA, Orlovskaya OA, Salina EA. Detection of Genomic Regions Associated with Resistance to Stem Rust in Russian Spring Wheat Varieties and Breeding Germplasm. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E4706. [PMID: 32630293 PMCID: PMC7369787 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21134706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 06/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Eriks. is a dangerous disease of common wheat worldwide. Development and cultivation of the varieties with genetic resistance is one of the most effective and environmentally important ways for protection of wheat against fungal pathogens. Field phytopathological screening and genome-wide association study (GWAS) were used for assessment of the genetic diversity of a collection of spring wheat genotypes on stem rust resistance loci. The collection consisting of Russian varieties of spring wheat and introgression lines with alien genetic materials was evaluated over three seasons (2016, 2017 and 2018) for resistance to the native population of stem rust specific to the West Siberian region of Russia. The results indicate that most varieties displayed from moderate to high levels of susceptibility to P. graminis; 16% of genotypes had resistance or immune response. In total, 13,006 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers obtained from the Infinium 15K array were used to perform genome-wide association analysis. GWAS detected 35 significant marker-trait associations (MTAs) with SNPs located on chromosomes 1A, 2A, 2B, 3B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 7A and 7B. The most significant associations were found on chromosomes 7A and 6A where known resistance genes Sr25 and Sr6Ai = 2 originated from Thinopyrum ssp. are located. Common wheat lines containing introgressed fragments from Triticum timopheevii and Triticum kiharae were found to carry Sr36 gene on 2B chromosome. It has been suggested that the quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapped to the chromosome 5BL may be new loci inherited from the T. timopheevii. It can be inferred that a number of Russian wheat varieties may contain the Sr17 gene, which does not currently provide effective protection against pathogen. This is the first report describing the results of analysis of the genetic factors conferring resistance of Russian spring wheat varieties to stem rust.
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- Irina N. Leonova
- The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (E.S.S.); (E.A.O.); (E.A.S.)
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- The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (E.S.S.); (E.A.O.); (E.A.S.)
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- The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (E.S.S.); (E.A.O.); (E.A.S.)
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 220072 Minsk, Belarus;
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- The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (E.S.S.); (E.A.O.); (E.A.S.)
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Kangara N, Kurowski TJ, Radhakrishnan GV, Ghosh S, Cook NM, Yu G, Arora S, Steffenson BJ, Figueroa M, Mohareb F, Saunders DGO, Wulff BBH. Mutagenesis of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and Selection of Gain-of-Virulence Mutants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:570180. [PMID: 33072145 PMCID: PMC7533539 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.570180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Wheat stem rust caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is regaining prominence due to the recent emergence of virulent isolates and epidemics in Africa, Europe and Central Asia. The development and deployment of wheat cultivars with multiple stem rust resistance (Sr) genes stacked together will provide durable resistance. However, certain disease resistance genes can suppress each other or fail in particular genetic backgrounds. Therefore, the function of each Sr gene must be confirmed after incorporation into an Sr-gene stack. This is difficult when using pathogen disease assays due to epistasis from recognition of multiple avirulence (Avr) effectors. Heterologous delivery of single Avr effectors can circumvent this limitation, but this strategy is currently limited by the paucity of cloned Pgt Avrs. To accelerate Avr gene cloning, we outline a procedure to develop a mutant population of Pgt spores and select for gain-of-virulence mutants. We used ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS) to mutagenize urediniospores and create a library of > 10,000 independent mutant isolates that were combined into 16 bulks of ~658 pustules each. We sequenced random mutants and determined the average mutation density to be 1 single nucleotide variant (SNV) per 258 kb. From this, we calculated that a minimum of three independently derived gain-of-virulence mutants is required to identify a given Avr gene. We inoculated the mutant library onto plants containing Sr43, Sr44, or Sr45 and obtained 9, 4, and 14 mutants with virulence toward Sr43, Sr44, or Sr45, respectively. However, only mutants identified on Sr43 and Sr45 maintained their virulence when reinolculated onto the lines from which they were identified. We further characterized 8 mutants with virulence toward Sr43. These also maintained their virulence profile on the stem rust international differential set containing 20 Sr genes, indicating that they were most likely not accidental contaminants. In conclusion, our method allows selecting for virulent mutants toward targeted resistance (R) genes. The development of a mutant library from as little as 320 mg spores creates a resource that enables screening against several R genes without the need for multiple rounds of spore multiplication and mutagenesis.
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- The Bioinformatics Group, Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield University, Bedford, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, NSW, Australia
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- The Bioinformatics Group, Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield University, Bedford, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Brande B. H. Wulff, ; Diane G. O. Saunders, ; Fady Mohareb,
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Brande B. H. Wulff, ; Diane G. O. Saunders, ; Fady Mohareb,
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- Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Brande B. H. Wulff, ; Diane G. O. Saunders, ; Fady Mohareb,
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