Wheat is one of the primary staple foods throughout the planet. Significant yield gains in
wheat production over the past 40 years have resulted in a steady balance of supply versus …

Parasexuality contributes to diversity and adaptive evolution of haploid (monokaryotic) fungi.
However, non-sexual genetic exchange mechanisms are not defined in dikaryotic fungi (…

Stem rust caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) is a devastating disease
of the global staple crop wheat. Although this disease was largely controlled in the latter half …

Race-specific resistance genes protect the global wheat crop from stem rust disease caused
by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) but are often overcome owing to evolution of new …

Background Most animals and plants have more than one set of chromosomes and package
these haplotypes into a single nucleus within each cell. In contrast, many fungal species …

Global agriculture is under threat due to the rapid evolution and spread of pathogenic fungi
that cause rust diseases. For instance, the recently evolved races of wheat stem rust (…

Genes in prokaryotic genomes are often arranged into clusters and co-transcribed into
polycistronic RNAs. Isolated examples of polycistronic RNAs were also reported in some higher …

Pyrenophora tritici-repentis is a necrotrophic fungus causal to the disease tan spot of wheat,
whose contribution to crop loss has increased significantly during the last few decades. …

While prokaryotic pan-genomes have been shown to contain many more genes than any
individual organism, the prevalence and functional significance of differentially present genes …

Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca) causes crown rust disease in cultivated and wild oat (Avena
spp.). The significant yield losses inflicted by this pathogen make crown rust the most …