A review of wheat diseases—a field perspective

M Figueroa, KE Hammond‐Kosack… - Molecular plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of Septoria tritici Blotch disease on wheat: An EU perspective

H Fones, S Gurr - Fungal genetics and biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Zymoseptoria tritici is the causal agent of one of the European Union's most devastating
foliar diseases of wheat: Septoria tritici Blotch (STB). It is also a notable pathogen of wheat …

Wheat receptor-kinase-like protein Stb6 controls gene-for-gene resistance to fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

C Saintenac, WS Lee, F Cambon, JJ Rudd, RC King… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Deployment of fast-evolving disease-resistance genes is one of the most successful
strategies used by plants to fend off pathogens 1, 2. In gene-for-gene relationships, most …

A small secreted protein in Zymoseptoria tritici is responsible for avirulence on wheat cultivars carrying the Stb6 resistance gene

Z Zhong, TC Marcel, FE Hartmann, X Ma… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Zymoseptoria tritici is the causal agent of Septoria tritici blotch, a major pathogen of wheat
globally and the most damaging pathogen of wheat in Europe. A gene‐for‐gene (GFG) …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics of resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici and applications to wheat breeding

JKM Brown, L Chartrain, P Lasserre-Zuber… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current knowledge about genes for resistance to Septoria tritici blotch
(STB) of wheat, caused by Zymoseptoria tritici (formerly Mycosphaerella graminicola). These …

A fungal avirulence factor encoded in a highly plastic genomic region triggers partial resistance to septoria tritici blotch

L Meile, D Croll, PC Brunner, C Plissonneau… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cultivar‐strain specificity in the wheat–Zymoseptoria tritici pathosystem determines the
infection outcome and is controlled by resistance genes on the host side, many of which …

Using population and comparative genomics to understand the genetic basis of effector-driven fungal pathogen evolution

C Plissonneau, J Benevenuto… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Epidemics caused by fungal plant pathogens pose a major threat to agro-ecosystems and
impact global food security. High-throughput sequencing enabled major advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Cell biology of Zymoseptoria tritici: Pathogen cell organization and wheat infection

G Steinberg - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Cell biological research in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici (formerly Mycosphaerella
graminicola) has led to a good understanding of the histology of the infection process …

Characterization of effector–target interactions in necrotrophic pathosystems reveals trends and variation in host manipulation

TL Friesen, JD Faris - Annual review of phytopathology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Great strides have been made in defining the details of the plant defense response involving
biotrophic fungal and bacterial pathogens. The groundwork for the current model was laid by …

Highly flexible infection programs in a specialized wheat pathogen

J Haueisen, M Möller, CJ Eschenbrenner… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many filamentous plant pathogens exhibit high levels of genomic variability, yet the impact of
this variation on host–pathogen interactions is largely unknown. We have addressed host …