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Boixel AL, Goyeau H, Berder J, Moinard J, Suffert F, Soubeyrand S, Sache I, Vidal T. A landscape-scale field survey demonstrates the role of wheat volunteers as a local and diversified source of leaf rust inoculum. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20411. [PMID: 37990120 PMCID: PMC10663564 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47499-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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Deploying disease-resistant cultivars is one of the most effective control strategies to manage crop diseases such as wheat leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina. After harvest, this biotrophic fungal pathogen can survive on wheat volunteers present at landscape scale and constitute a local source of primary inoculum for the next cropping season. In this study, we characterised the diversity of P. triticina populations surveyed on wheat volunteer seedlings for six consecutive years (2007-2012) at the landscape scale. A total of 642 leaf rust samples classified in 52 virulence profiles (pathotypes) were collected within a fixed 5-km radius. The pathotype composition (identity and abundance) of field-collected populations was analyzed according to the distance between the surveyed wheat plots and to the cultivars of origin of isolates. Our study emphasised the high diversity of P. triticina populations on wheat volunteers at the landscape scale. We observed an impact of cultivar of origin on pathogen population composition. Levels of population diversity differed between cultivars and their deployment in the study area. Our results suggest that wheat volunteers could provide a significant though highly variable contribution to the composition of primary inoculum and subsequent initiation of leaf rust epidemics.
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- A-L Boixel
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR BIOGER, 91123, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR BIOGER, 91123, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR BIOGER, 91123, Palaiseau, France
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- DRAAF Midi-Pyrénées, 31074, Toulouse, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR BIOGER, 91123, Palaiseau, France
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- AgroParisTech, 91123, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR BIOGER, 91123, Palaiseau, France.
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Page R, Huang S, Ronen M, Sela H, Sharon A, Shrestha S, Poland J, Steffenson BJ. Genome-wide association mapping of rust resistance in Aegilops longissima. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1196486. [PMID: 37575932 PMCID: PMC10413114 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1196486] [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: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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The rust diseases, including leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina (Pt), stem rust caused by P. graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), and stripe rust caused by P. striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), are major limiting factors in wheat production worldwide. Identification of novel sources of rust resistance genes is key to developing cultivars resistant to rapidly evolving pathogen populations. Aegilops longissima is a diploid wild grass native to the Levant and closely related to the modern bread wheat D subgenome. To explore resistance genes in the species, we evaluated a large panel of Ae. longissima for resistance to several races of Pt, Pgt, and Pst, and conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to map rust resistance loci in the species. A panel of 404 Ae. longissima accessions, mostly collected from Israel, were screened for seedling-stage resistance to four races of Pt, four races of Pgt, and three races of Pst. Out of the 404 accessions screened, two were found that were resistant to all 11 races of the three rust pathogens screened. The percentage of all accessions screened that were resistant to a given rust pathogen race ranged from 18.5% to 99.7%. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) was performed on 381 accessions of the Ae. longissima panel, wherein 125,343 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were obtained after alignment to the Ae. longissima reference genome assembly and quality control filtering. Genetic diversity analysis revealed the presence of two distinct subpopulations, which followed a geographic pattern of a northern and a southern subpopulation. Association mapping was performed in the genotyped portion of the collection (n = 381) and in each subpopulation (n = 204 and 174) independently via a single-locus mixed-linear model, and two multi-locus models, FarmCPU, and BLINK. A large number (195) of markers were significantly associated with resistance to at least one of 10 rust pathogen races evaluated, nine of which are key candidate markers for further investigation due to their detection via multiple models and/or their association with resistance to more than one pathogen race. The novel resistance loci identified will provide additional diversity available for use in wheat breeding.
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- Rae Page
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
- Plant Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- KAUST Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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Hovmøller MS, Thach T, Justesen AF. Global dispersal and diversity of rust fungi in the context of plant health. Curr Opin Microbiol 2023; 71:102243. [PMID: 36462410 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2022.102243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Long-distance dispersal of plant pathogens at the continental scale may have strong implications on plant health, in particular when incursions result in spread of disease to new territories where the disease was previously absent or insignificant. These dispersions may be caused by airborne transmission of spores or accidental spread via human travel and trade. Recent surveillance efforts of cereal rust fungi have demonstrated that incursion of new strains with superior fitness into areas where the disease is already established may have similar implications on plant health. Since dispersal events are highly stochastic, irrespective of transmission mechanism, critical mitigation efforts include preparedness by coordinated pathogen surveillance activities, host crop diversification, and breeding for disease resistance with low vulnerability to sudden changes in the pathogen population.
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- Mogens S Hovmøller
- Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Center, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark.
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- Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Center, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Global Rust Reference Center, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark
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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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Kolmer JA, Fajolu O. Virulence Phenotypes of the Wheat Leaf Rust Pathogen, Puccinia triticina, in the United States from 2018 to 2020. PLANT DISEASE 2022; 106:1723-1729. [PMID: 34978866 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-10-21-2321-re] [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: 05/05/2023]
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Collections of wheat leaves infected with the leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina, were obtained from the southeastern states, the Ohio Valley, the Great Plains, and Washington in 2018, 2019, and 2020 to determine the prevalent virulence phenotypes in the wheat-growing regions of the United States. In the hard red winter wheat region of the southern and mid Great Plains, MNPSD and MPPSD were the two most common phenotypes in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, BBBQD with high virulence to durum wheat was the most common phenotype in the southern Great Plains. In the hard red spring wheat region of the northern Great Plains, MNPSD, MPPSD, MBDSD, and TBBGS were the predominant phenotypes. In the soft red winter wheat region of the southeastern states and Ohio Valley region, MBTNB, MCTNB, and MNPSD were the three most common phenotypes. Collections in Washington had phenotypes LBDSG, LCDSG, LCDJG, and MBDSB that were not found in any other region. Isolates with virulence to the leaf rust resistance (Lr) gene Lr11 were most frequent in the southeastern states and Ohio Valley regions. The frequency of isolates with virulence to the Lr39 gene was highest in the Great Plains region and frequency of isolates with virulence to the Lr21 gene was highest in the northern Great Plains region. Selection of virulence phenotypes by Lr genes in the different market classes of wheat, combined with the effects of clonal reproduction, overwintering in southern regions, and low migration between the Great Plains region and eastern wheat-producing regions, has maintained the different P. triticina populations in the United States.
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- James A Kolmer
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108
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Discovery of Resistance Genes in Rye by Targeted Long-Read Sequencing and Association Genetics. Cells 2022; 11:cells11081273. [PMID: 35455953 PMCID: PMC9032263 DOI: 10.3390/cells11081273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The majority of released rye cultivars are susceptible to leaf rust because of a low level of resistance in the predominant hybrid rye-breeding gene pools Petkus and Carsten. To discover new sources of leaf rust resistance, we phenotyped a diverse panel of inbred lines from the less prevalent Gülzow germplasm using six distinct isolates of Puccinia recondita f. sp. secalis and found that 55 out of 92 lines were resistant to all isolates. By performing a genome-wide association study using 261,406 informative SNP markers, we identified five resistance-associated QTLs on chromosome arms 1RS, 1RL, 2RL, 5RL and 7RS. To identify candidate Puccinia recondita (Pr) resistance genes in these QTLs, we sequenced the rye nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) intracellular immune receptor complement using a Triticeae NLR bait-library and PacBio® long-read single-molecule high-fidelity (HiFi) sequencing. Trait-genotype correlations across 10 resistant and 10 susceptible lines identified four candidate NLR-encoding Pr genes. One of these physically co-localized with molecular markers delimiting Pr3 on chromosome arm 1RS and the top-most resistance-associated QTL in the panel.
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Kolmer JA, Herman A, Fellers JP. Genotype Groups of the Wheat Leaf Rust Fungus Puccinia triticina in the United States as Determined by Genotyping by Sequencing. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2022; 112:653-662. [PMID: 34261342 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-03-21-0125-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: 06/13/2023]
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Wheat leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina is a widespread disease of wheat in the United States and worldwide. Populations of P. triticina are characterized by virulence phenotypes that change rapidly because of selection by wheat cultivars with leaf rust resistance genes. The objective of this study was to genotype collections of P. triticina from 2011 to 2018 in the United States using restriction site-associated genotyping by sequencing (GBS) to determine if recently identified new virulence phenotypes belong to established genotype groups or to groups previously not detected. A total of 158 isolates were phenotyped for virulence on 20 lines of Thatcher wheat that are isogenic for leaf rust resistance genes and also genotyped for single nucleotide polymorphism. Eight distinct groups of P. triticina genotypes from common wheat were described based on coancestry, nucleotide divergence, and principal coordinate plots. A separate genotype group had isolates with virulence to durum wheat. Isolates within groups had similar virulence phenotypes, and the overall population had high levels of heterozygosity and high levels of linkage disequilibria, which were all indicators of clonality. Two new genotype groups were described, thereby raising the possibility of new introductions of P. triticina; however, genotypes in these groups may have also originated from somatic nuclear exchange and recombination. A genome-wide association study detected 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms that were highly associated with virulence to 11 resistance genes in the Thatcher near-isogenic lines.
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- J A Kolmer
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108
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- Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Manhattan, KS 66506
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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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Fellers JP, Sakthikumar S, He F, McRell K, Bakkeren G, Cuomo CA, Kolmer JA. Whole-genome sequencing of multiple isolates of Puccinia triticina reveals asexual lineages evolving by recurrent mutations. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2021; 11:jkab219. [PMID: 34544127 PMCID: PMC8496273 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina Erikss., is a worldwide pathogen of tetraploid durum and hexaploid wheat. Many races of P. triticina differ for virulence to specific leaf rust resistance genes and are found in most wheat-growing regions of the world. Wheat cultivars with effective leaf rust resistance exert selection pressure on P. triticina populations for virulent race types. The objectives of this study were to examine whole-genome sequence data of 121 P. triticina isolates and to gain insight into race evolution. The collection included isolates comprising of many different race phenotypes collected worldwide from common and durum wheat. One isolate from wild wheat relative Aegilops speltoides and two from Ae. cylindrica were also included for comparison. Based on 121,907 informative variants identified relative to the reference Race 1-1 genome, isolates were clustered into 11 major lineages with 100% bootstrap support. The isolates were also grouped based on variation in 1311 predicted secreted protein genes. In gene-coding regions, all groups had high ratios of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations and nonsense to readthrough mutations. Grouping of isolates based on two main variation principle components for either genome-wide variation or variation just within the secreted protein genes, indicated similar groupings. Variants were distributed across the entire genome, not just within the secreted protein genes. Our results suggest that recurrent mutation and selection play a major role in differentiation within the clonal lineages.
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- John P Fellers
- USDA-ARS, Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Summerland, BC V0H1Z0, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Hessenauer P, Feau N, Gill U, Schwessinger B, Brar GS, Hamelin RC. Evolution and Adaptation of Forest and Crop Pathogens in the Anthropocene. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:49-67. [PMID: 33200962 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-08-20-0358-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Anthropocene marks the era when human activity is making a significant impact on earth, its ecological and biogeographical systems. The domestication and intensification of agricultural and forest production systems have had a large impact on plant and tree health. Some pathogens benefitted from these human activities and have evolved and adapted in response to the expansion of crop and forest systems, resulting in global outbreaks. Global pathogen genomics data including population genomics and high-quality reference assemblies are crucial for understanding the evolution and adaptation of pathogens. Crops and forest trees have remarkably different characteristics, such as reproductive time and the level of domestication. They also have different production systems for disease management with more intensive management in crops than forest trees. By comparing and contrasting results from pathogen population genomic studies done on widely different agricultural and forest production systems, we can improve our understanding of pathogen evolution and adaptation to different selection pressures. We find that in spite of these differences, similar processes such as hybridization, host jumps, selection, specialization, and clonal expansion are shaping the pathogen populations in both crops and forest trees. We propose some solutions to reduce these impacts and lower the probability of global pathogen outbreaks so that we can envision better management strategies to sustain global food production as well as ecosystem services.
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- Pauline Hessenauer
- Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, U.S.A
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601 Australia
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- Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6 Canada
- Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
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van der Walt ZAP, Prins R, Wessels E, Bender CM, Visser B, Boshoff WH. Accomplishments in wheat rust research in South Africa. S AFR J SCI 2020. [DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2020/7688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Rust diseases, although seasonal, have been severe constraints in wheat production in South Africa for almost 300 years. Rust research gained momentum with the institution of annual surveys in the 1980s, followed by race identification, an understanding of rust epidemiology, and eventually a focused collaboration amongst pathologists, breeders and geneticists. Diversity in South African populations of Puccinia triticina, P. graminis f. sp. tritici and P. striiformis f. sp. tritici has been described and isolates are available to accurately phenotype wheat germplasm and study pathogen populations at national, regional and global levels. Sources of resistance have been, and still are, methodically analysed and molecular marker systems were developed to incorporate, stack and verify complex resistance gene combinations in breeding lines and cultivars. Vigilance, capacity, new technologies, collaboration and sustained funding are critical for maintaining and improving the current research impetus for future management of these important diseases.
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- CenGen (Pty) Ltd., Worcester, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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Ghimire B, Sapkota S, Bahri BA, Martinez-Espinoza AD, Buck JW, Mergoum M. Fusarium Head Blight and Rust Diseases in Soft Red Winter Wheat in the Southeast United States: State of the Art, Challenges and Future Perspective for Breeding. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1080. [PMID: 32765563 PMCID: PMC7378807 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Among the biotic constraints to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production, fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum, leaf rust (LR), caused by Puccinia triticina, and stripe rust (SR) caused by Puccinia striiformis are problematic fungal diseases worldwide. Each can significantly reduce grain yield while FHB causes additional food and feed safety concerns due to mycotoxin contamination of grain. Genetic resistance is the most effective and sustainable approach for managing wheat diseases. In the past 20 years, over 500 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) conferring small to moderate effects for the different FHB resistance types have been reported in wheat. Similarly, 79 Lr-genes and more than 200 QTLs and 82 Yr-genes and 140 QTLs have been reported for seedling and adult plant LR and SR resistance, respectively. Most QTLs conferring rust resistance are race-specific generally conforming to a classical gene-for-gene interaction while resistance to FHB exhibits complex polygenic inheritance with several genetic loci contributing to one resistance type. Identification and deployment of additional genes/QTLs associated with FHB and rust resistance can expedite wheat breeding through marker-assisted and/or genomic selection to combine small-effect QTL in the gene pool. LR disease has been present in the southeast United States for decades while SR and FHB have become increasingly problematic in the past 20 years, with FHB arguably due to increased corn acreage in the region. Currently, QTLs on chromosome 1B from Jamestown, 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2D, 4A, 5A, and 6A from W14, Ning7840, Ernie, Bess, Massey, NC-Neuse, and Truman, and 3B (Fhb1) from Sumai 3 for FHB resistance, Lr9, Lr10, Lr18, Lr24, Lr37, LrA2K, and Lr2K38 genes for LR resistance, and Yr17 and YrR61 for SR resistance have been extensively deployed in southeast wheat breeding programs. This review aims to disclose the current status of FHB, LR, and SR diseases, summarize the genetics of resistance and breeding efforts for the deployment of FHB and rust resistance QTL on soft red winter wheat cultivars, and present breeding strategies to achieve sustainable management of these diseases in the southeast US.
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- Bikash Ghimire
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Griffin Campus, Griffin, GA, United States
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Figlan S, Ntushelo K, Mwadzingeni L, Terefe T, Tsilo TJ, Shimelis H. Breeding Wheat for Durable Leaf Rust Resistance in Southern Africa: Variability, Distribution, Current Control Strategies, Challenges and Future Prospects. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:549. [PMID: 32499800 PMCID: PMC7242648 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Leaf or brown rust of wheat caused by Puccinia triticina (Pt) is one of the most damaging diseases globally. Considerable progress has been made to control leaf rust through crop protection chemicals and host plant resistance breeding in southern Africa. However, frequent changes in the pathogen population still present a major challenge to achieve durable resistance. Disease surveillance and monitoring of the pathogen have revealed the occurrence of similar races across the region, justifying the need for concerted efforts by countries in southern Africa to develop and deploy more efficient and sustainable strategies to manage the disease. Understanding the genetic variability and composition of Pt is a pre-requisite for cultivar release with appropriate resistance gene combinations for sustainable disease management. This review highlights the variability and distribution of the Pt population, and the current control strategies, challenges and future prospects of breeding wheat varieties with durable leaf rust resistance in southern Africa. The importance of regular, collaborative and efficient surveillance of the pathogen and germplasm development across southern Africa is discussed, coupled with the potential of using modern breeding technologies to produce wheat cultivars with durable resistance.
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- Sandiswa Figlan
- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- Agricultural Research Council-Small Grain, Bethlehem, South Africa
- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
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- Department of Agriculture and Animal Health, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
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- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- Agricultural Research Council-Small Grain, Bethlehem, South Africa
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- Agricultural Research Council-Small Grain, Bethlehem, South Africa
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- Agricultural Research Council-Small Grain, Bethlehem, South Africa
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- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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Sharma-Poudyal D, Bai Q, Wan A, Wang M, See D, Chen X. Molecular Characterization of International Collections of the Wheat Stripe Rust Pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Reveals High Diversity and Intercontinental Migration. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2020; 110:933-942. [PMID: 31895005 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-09-19-0355-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici causes stripe rust (yellow rust), one of the most important wheat diseases worldwide. To understand the genetic variation of the pathogen in a global scale, 283 P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates collected from 16 countries in eight geographic regions were genotyped using 24 codominant simple sequence repeat markers. The overall collection had a high level of genetic diversity, and the diversity levels in the Asian populations were generally higher than those of the other regions. Heterozygosity of isolates ranged from 0 to 75%, with an average of 46%. Mean heterozygosity in individual countries ranged from 34 to 59%. A total of 265 multilocus genotypes (MLGs) were detected, which were classified into eight molecular groups. Some of the molecular groups were present in all geographic regions. Moreover, many isolates from different regions were found to be identical or very closely related MLGs. Analysis of molecular variance revealed high variation within countries and intermediate variation between countries, but it revealed low and insignificant variation among geographic regions. Pairwise comparisons of regional populations detected considerable effective migrants and only low to moderate levels of differentiation. The molecular genotypes had a moderate level of correlation with the virulence phenotypes, and some of the molecular/virulence groups contained isolates from different continents. The results indicate tremendous migrations of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici and warrant the development of management strategies considering the global pathogen population.
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- Dipak Sharma-Poudyal
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
- Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
- Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA 99164-6430
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Aoun M, Kolmer JA, Breiland M, Richards J, Brueggeman RS, Szabo LJ, Acevedo M. Genotyping-by-Sequencing for the Study of Genetic Diversity in Puccinia triticina. PLANT DISEASE 2020; 104:752-760. [PMID: 31910116 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-09-19-1890-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina Erikss., is globally the most widespread rust of wheat. Populations of P. triticina are highly diverse for virulence, with many different races found annually. The genetic diversity of P. triticina populations has been previously assessed using different types of DNA markers. Genotyping technologies that provide a higher density of markers distributed across the genome will be more powerful for analysis of genetic and phylogenetic relationships in P. triticina populations. In this study, we utilized restriction-associated DNA (RAD) genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) adapted for the Ion Torrent sequencing platform for the study of population diversity in P. triticina. A collection of 102 isolates, collected mainly from tetraploid and hexaploid wheat, was used. The virulence phenotypes of the isolates were determined on 20 lines of Thatcher wheat near isogenic for leaf rust resistance genes. Seven races were found among 57 isolates collected from tetraploid wheat, and 21 races were observed among 40 hexaploid wheat type isolates. This is the first study to report durum wheat virulent races to Lr3bg in Tunisia, Lr14a in Morocco, and Lr3bg and Lr28 in Mexico. Ethiopian isolates with high virulence to durum wheat but avirulent on Thatcher (hexaploid wheat) were tested for virulence on a set of durum (tetraploid) differentials. A subset of 30 isolates representing most of the virulence phenotypes in the 102 isolates were genotyped using RAD-GBS. Phylogenetic analysis of 30 isolates using 2,125 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers showed nine distinct clusters. There was a general correlation between virulence phenotypes and SNP genotypes. The high bootstrap values between clusters of isolates in the phylogenetic tree indicated that RAD-GBS can be used as a new genotyping tool that is fast, simple, high throughput, cost effective, and provides a sufficient number of markers for the study of genetic diversity in P. triticina.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY 4.0 International license.
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- Meriem Aoun
- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
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- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
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- International Programs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Prasad P, Savadi S, Bhardwaj SC, Gupta PK. The progress of leaf rust research in wheat. Fungal Biol 2020; 124:537-550. [PMID: 32448445 DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2020.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2019] [Revised: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Leaf rust (also called brown rust) in wheat, caused by fungal pathogen Puccinia triticina Erikss. (Pt) is one of the major constraints in wheat production worldwide. Pt is widespread with diverse population structure and undergoes rapid evolution to produce new virulent races against resistant cultivars that are regularly developed to provide resistance against the prevailing races of the pathogen. Occasionally, the disease may also take the shape of an epidemic in some wheat-growing areas causing major economic losses. In the recent past, substantial progress has been made in characterizing the sources of leaf rust resistance including non-host resistance (NHR). Progress has also been made in elucidating the population biology of Pt and the mechanisms of wheat-Pt interaction. So far, ∼80 leaf rust resistance genes (Lr genes) have been identified and characterized; some of them have also been used for the development of resistant wheat cultivars. It has also been shown that a gene-for-gene relationship exists between individual wheat Lr genes and the corresponding Pt Avr genes so that no Lr gene can provide resistance unless the prevailing race of the pathogen carries the corresponding Avr gene. Several Lr genes have also been cloned and their products characterized, although no Avr gene corresponding a specific Lr gene has so far been identified. However, several candidate effectors for Pt have been identified and functionally characterized using genome-wide analyses, transcriptomics, RNA sequencing, bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC), virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS), transient expression and other approaches. This review summarizes available information on different aspects of the pathogen Pt, genetics/genomics of leaf rust resistance in wheat including cloning and characterization of Lr genes and epigenetic regulation of disease resistance.
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- Pramod Prasad
- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, 171002, India
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- ICAR-Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Karnataka, 574202, India
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- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, 171002, India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch.Charan Singh University, Meerut, 250004, India.
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Endemic and panglobal genetic groups, and divergence of host-associated forms in worldwide collections of the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina as determined by genotyping by sequencing. Heredity (Edinb) 2019; 124:397-409. [PMID: 31863032 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-019-0288-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina, is found in the major wheat growing regions of the world and is a leading cause of yield loss in wheat. Populations of P. triticina are highly variable for virulence to resistance genes in wheat and adapt quickly to resistance genes in wheat cultivars. The objectives of this study were to determine the genetic relatedness of worldwide collections of P. triticina using restriction site associated genotyping by sequencing. A total of 558 isolates of P. triticina from wheat producing regions in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Ethiopia, Russia, Pakistan, Central Asia, China, New Zealand, and South Africa were characterized at 6745 single nucleotide loci. Isolates were also tested for virulence to 20 near-isogenic lines that differ for leaf rust resistance genes. Populations that were geographically proximal were also more closely related for genotypes. In addition, groups of isolates within regions that varied for genotype were similar to groups from other regions, which indicated past and recent migration across regions. Isolates from tetraploid durum wheat in five different regions were highly related with distinct genotypes compared to isolates from hexaploid common wheat. Based on a molecular clock, isolates from durum wheat found only in Ethiopia were the first to diverge from a common ancestor form of P. triticina that is found on the wild wheat relative Aegilops speltoides, followed by the divergence of isolates found worldwide that are virulent to durum wheat, and then by isolates found on common wheat.
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