Nature Communications (Nov 2019)
Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation
- Feng Li,
- Narayana M. Upadhyaya,
- Jana Sperschneider,
- Oadi Matny,
- Hoa Nguyen-Phuc,
- Rohit Mago,
- Castle Raley,
- Marisa E. Miller,
- Kevin A. T. Silverstein,
- Eva Henningsen,
- Cory D. Hirsch,
- Botma Visser,
- Zacharias A. Pretorius,
- Brian J. Steffenson,
- Benjamin Schwessinger,
- Peter N. Dodds,
- Melania Figueroa
Affiliations
- Feng Li
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Narayana M. Upadhyaya
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food
- Jana Sperschneider
- Biological Data Science Institute, The Australian National University
- Oadi Matny
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Hoa Nguyen-Phuc
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Rohit Mago
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food
- Castle Raley
- Leidos Biomedical Research
- Marisa E. Miller
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Kevin A. T. Silverstein
- Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
- Eva Henningsen
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Cory D. Hirsch
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Botma Visser
- University of the Free State
- Zacharias A. Pretorius
- University of the Free State
- Brian J. Steffenson
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
- Benjamin Schwessinger
- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University
- Peter N. Dodds
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food
- Melania Figueroa
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12927-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 15
Abstract
Strain Ug99 of the wheat stem rust pathogen, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, is a major threat to global food security. Here, the authors present genomic analyses supporting that Ug99 arose as a result of non-sexual genetic exchange between dikaryotic ancestors.
