Sequence tagged site (STS) markers have been developed recently to identify resistance genes in wheat. A number of wild relatives have been used to transfer resistance genes into wheat cultivars. Accessions of wild species of Triticeae: Aegilops longissima (4), Ae. speltoides (6), Ae. tauschii (8), Ae. umbellulata (3), Ae. ventricosa (3), Triticum spelta (2), T. timopheevi (3), T. boeoticum (4)...

BACKGROUND The wheat stripe rust fungus (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, PST) is responsible for significant yield losses in wheat production worldwide. In spite of its economic importance, the PST genomic sequence is not currently available. Fortunately Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has radically improved sequencing speed and efficiency with a great reduction in costs compared to tradi...

The biotrophic rust fungi Puccinia hordei and Puccinia striiformis are important barley pathogens with the potential to cause high yield losses through an epidemic spread. The identification of QTL conferring resistance to these pathogens is the basis for targeted breeding approaches aiming to improve stripe rust and leaf rust resistance of modern cultivars. Exploiting the allelic richness of w...

The development of resistant cultivars is a preferred way to manage the wheat rust pathogens. Successful breeding relies on continuous discovery, characterization and deployment genetically diverse resistance sources. This investigation covers identification stripe (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) carried pre-Green Revolution genotype, Aus27492, from France its transfer modern ba...

Adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) is a constitutive mitochondrial component that is involved in ADP/ATP exchange and mitochondrion-mediated apoptosis in yeast and mammals. However, little is known about the function of ANT in pathogenic fungi. In this study, we identified an ANT gene of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), designated PsANT. The PsANT protein contains three typical cons...

Analyses of the large-scale population structure of pathogens enable the identification of migrationpatterns, diversity reservoirs or longevity of populations, the understanding of current evolutionarytrajectories and the anticipation of future ones. This is particularly important for long-distancemigrating fungal pathogens such as Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (PST), which is ...