Diversifying Selection in the Wheat Stem Rust Fungus Acts Predominantly on Pathogen-Associated Gene Families and Reveals Candidate Effectors

Diversifying Selection in the Wheat Stem Rust Fungus Acts Predominantly on Pathogen-Associated Gene Families and Reveals Candidate Effectors

Plant pathogens cause severe losses to crop plants and threaten global food production. One striking example is the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, which can rapidly evolve new virulent pathotypes in response to resistant host lines. Like several other filamentous fungal an...

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Main Authors: Jana eSperschneider, Hua eYing, Peter eDodds, Donald eGardiner, Narayana Mithur Upadhyaya, Karam eSingh, John M Manners, Jennifer eTaylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
adaptation
selection
effector
Fungal pathogens
rust
avirulence
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00372/full

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