This study provides new insights into the role of photoprotection in preformed and induced defence two wheat genotypes with contrasting phenotypes to infection by Zymoseptoria tritici. We investigated mechanisms photoprotective response during early infection, including nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ), β-carotene-derived xanthophylls, reactive oxygen species, phytohormones abscisic acid (ABA),...

Aim of study: Septoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici, is one most important wheat diseases worldwide, affecting both bread and durum wheat. The lack knowledge about interaction with Z. together limited resources resistant material, have led to a rising threat for cultivation, particularly in Mediterranean Basin. In Spain, STB has increased its incidence last fe...

Abstract Globally, bread wheat production is threatened by fungal diseases, including the devastating disease Septoria tritici blotch (STB). Given global importance of STB, and difficulty in identifying novel sources resistance to this disease, we screened a variety genotypes, wild, ancestral, mutagenized lines, for their STB response. This delineated panel wild relatives Watkins collection lin...

In a genome alignment of five individuals of the ascomycete fungus Zymoseptoria pseudotritici, a close relative of the wheat pathogen Z. tritici (synonym Mycosphaerella graminicola), we observed peculiar diversity patterns. Long regions up to 100 kb without variation alternate with similarly long regions of high variability. The variable segments in the genome alignment are organized into two m...

approved: _______________________________________________________ Christopher Mundt Fungicide resistance has become an increasing problem in North American populations of Zymoseptoria tritici, the causal agent of septoria leaf blotch of wheat. The goal of this experiment was to determine whether Z. tritici’s resistance to one azole fungicide would predict resistance in other fungicides within t...