Emergence and spread of new races of wheat stem rust fungus: continued threat to food security and prospects of genetic control

RP Singh, DP Hodson, Y Jin, ES Lagudah… - …, 2015 - Am Phytopath Society
Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been
recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to …

Cloning of the broadly effective wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr42 transferred from Aegilops tauschii

G Lin, H Chen, B Tian, SK Sehgal, L Singh, J Xie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The wheat wild relative Aegilops tauschii was previously used to transfer the Lr42 leaf rust
resistance gene into bread wheat. Lr42 confers resistance at both seedling and adult stages …

Marker-assisted breeding of hexaploid spring wheat in the Canadian prairies

J Toth, S Pandurangan, A Burt… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important crop and export commodity for Canada.
Increased global population, demand for superior quality grains, and rapidly evolving …

A consensus map for Ug99 stem rust resistance loci in wheat

LX Yu, H Barbier, MN Rouse, S Singh… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2014 - Springer
Key message This consensus map of stem rust genes, QTLs, and molecular markers will
facilitate the identification of new resistance genes and provide a resource of in formation for …

A wheat kinase and immune receptor form host-specificity barriers against the blast fungus

S Arora, A Steed, R Goddard, K Gaurav, T O'Hara… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Since emerging in Brazil in 1985, wheat blast has spread throughout South America and
recently appeared in Bangladesh and Zambia. Here we show that two wheat resistance …

Kenyan Isolates of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici from 2008 to 2014: Virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 Race Group and Implications for Breeding Programs

M Newcomb, PD Olivera, MN Rouse… - …, 2016 - Am Phytopath Society
Frequent emergence of new variants in the Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Ug99 race group in
Kenya has made pathogen survey a priority. We analyzed 140 isolates from 78 P. graminis f …

[PDF][PDF] Catalogue of gene symbols for wheat: 2001 supplement

RA McIntosh, KM Devos, J Dubcovsky… - A nnual W heat N e ws …, 2001 - Citeseer
The most recent version of the Catalogue, compiled for the 11th International Wheat
Genetics Symposium held in Brisbane, Australia is available from the Komugi and …

Association analysis of stem rust resistance in US winter wheat

D Zhang, RL Bowden, J Yu, BF Carver, G Bai - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Stem rust has become a renewed threat to global wheat production after the emergence and
spread of race TTKSK (also known as Ug99) and related races from Africa. To elucidate US …

Mapping and validation of stem rust resistance loci in spring wheat line CI 14275

ZC Kosgey, EA Edae, R Dill-Macky, Y Jin… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) remains a constraint to wheat
production in East Africa. In this study, we characterized the genetics of stem rust resistance …

Association mapping of North American spring wheat breeding germplasm reveals loci conferring resistance to Ug99 and other African stem rust races

P Bajgain, MN Rouse, P Bulli, S Bhavani, T Gordon… - BMC Plant …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The recently identified Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) race TTKSK
(Ug99) poses a severe threat to global wheat production because of its broad virulence on …