Genetic Characterization of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici Populations from Ethiopia by SSRs

Journal of Phytopathology

Volumn 158, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 806-812

  Admassu, Belayneh ^a,b   Friedt, Wolfgang ^c   Ordon, Frank ^c  

^a ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Genetic diversity; Microsatellites; Population differentiation; Wheat stem rust

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOASSAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; WHEAT;

ETHIOPIA;

PUCCINIA GRAMINIS F. SP. TRITICI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78049526059     PISSN: 09311785     EISSN: 14390434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0434.2010.01702.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Admassu B, Fekadu E. (2005) Physiological races and virulence diversity of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici on wheat in Ethiopia. Phytopathol Mediterr 44:313-318.
2. Admassu B, Lind V, Friedt W, Ordon F. (2009) Virulence analysis of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici populations in Ethiopia with special consideration of Ug99. Plant Pathol 58:362-369.
3. Agapow PM, Burt A. (2001) Indices of multilocus linkage disequilibrium. Mol Ecol Notes 1:101-102.
4. Anderson PA, Pryor AJ. (1992) DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the wheat rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici. Theor Appl Genet 83:715-719.
5. Badebo A. (2002) Breeding bread wheat with multiple disease resistance and high yield for the Ethiopian highlands: broadening the genetic basis of yellow rust and tan spot resistance. Goettingen, Germany, Georg-August University of Goettingen, PhD Thesis.
6. Bouajila A, Abang MM, Haouasa S, Udupa S, Rezgui S, Baum M, Yahyaoui A. (2007) Genetic diversity of Rhynchosporium secalis in Tunisia as revealed by pathotype, AFLP, and microsatellite analyses. Mycopathologia 163:281-294.
7. Brake VM, Irwin JAG, Park RF. (2001) Genetic variability in Australian isolates of Puccinia coronata f.sp. avenae assessed with molecular and pathogenicity markers. Australas Plant Pathol 30:259-266.
8. Burdon JJ, Thrall PH. (2000) Coevolution at multiple spatial scales: Linum marginale Melampsora lini- from the individual to the species. Evol Ecol 14:261-281.
9. Felstenstein J. (1995) PHYLIP: Phylogeny Inference Package, v3.6. Seattle, WA, USA, Washington State University.
10. Fetch TG, Dunsmore KM. (2004) Physiological specialization of Puccinia graminis on wheat, barley, and oat in Canada in 2001. Can J Plant Pathol 26:148-155.
11. Gebre-Mariam H. (1991) Wheat production and research in Ethiopia. In: Gebre-Mariam H, Tanner DG, Hulluka M. (eds) Proc Wheat Research in Ethiopia: A Historic Perspective. Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, IAR/CIMMYT, pp 1-16.
12. Van Ginkel MG, Getnet G, Tessema T. (1989) Stripe, stem and leaf rust races in major wheat producing areas in Ethiopia. IAR Newsl Agric Res 3:6-8.
13. Jin Y. (2005) Races of Puccinia graminis identified in the United States in 2003. Plant Dis 89:1125-1127.
14. Jin Y, Szabo LJ, Pretorius Z. (2008) Virulence variation within the Ug99 lineage. Wheat Genetics International Symposium Proceedings. Available: (accessed on 15 June 2009).
15. Keiper FJ, Haque MS, Hayden MJ, Park RF. (2006) Genetic diversity in Australian populations of Puccinia graminis f.sp. avenae. Phytopathol 96:96-104.
16. Luig NH. (1983) Epidemiology in Australia and New Zealand. In: Roelfs AP, Bushnell WR. (eds) Cereal rusts. Vol II: Diseases, Distribution, Epidemiology, and Control. Orlando, FL, USA, Academic Press, pp 301-328.
17. Macdonald AJ, Sankovic N, Sarre SD, Fitzsimmons NN, Wakefield MJ, Graves JAM, Zenger KR. (2006) Y chromosome microsatellite markers identified from the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) and their amplification in three other macropod species. Mol Ecol Notes 6:1202-1204.
18. Mackenzie D. (2007) Billions at risk from wheat super-blight. New Sci 193:35.
19. McCallum BD, Roelfs AP, Szabo LJ, Groth JV. (1999) Comparison of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici from South America and Europe. Plant Pathol 48:574-581.
20. McDermott JM, McDonald BA. (1993) Gene flow in plant pathosystems. Annu Rev Phytopathol 31:353-373.
21. McDonald BA. (2004) Population genetics of plant pathogens. Plant Health Instr doi:
22. Mebrate SA, Dehne HW, Pillen K, Oerke EC. (2006) Molecular diversity in Puccinia triticina isolates from Ethiopia and Germany. J Phytopathol 154:701-710.
23. Nastasi V. (1964) Wheat production in Ethiopia. In: Information bulletin on the Near East wheat and barley improvement and production project. Rome, FAO, pp. 13-23.
24. Nei M. (1978) Estimation of average heterozygosity and genetic distance from a small number of individuals. Genetics 89:583-590.
25. Ordonez ME, Kolmer JA. (2007) Simple sequence diversity of a worldwide collection of Puccinia triticina from durum wheat. Phytopathol 97:574-583.
26. Rohlf FJ. (1998) NTSYSpc Version 2.01e: User Guide. New York, USA, Applied Biostatistics Inc.
27. SAS. (2009) Statistical Analysis Systems, v9.2. Cary, NC, USA, SAS Institute Inc.
28. Semblat JP, Bongiovanni M, Wajnberg E, Dalmasso A, Abad P, Castagnone-Sereno P. (2000) Virulence and molecular diversity of parthenogenetic root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp. Heredity 84:81-89.
29. Singh RP. (1991) Pathogenicity variation of Puccinia recondita f.sp. tritici and P. graminis f.sp. tritici in wheat-growing areas of Mexico during 1988 and 1989. Plant Dis 75:790-794.
30. Singh RP, Hodson DP, Jin Y, Huerta-Espino J, Kinyua MG, Wanyera R, Njau P, Ward RW. (2006) Current status, likely migration and strategies to mitigate the threat to wheat production from race Ug99 (TTKS) of stem rust pathogen. Perspect Agr, Vet Sci, Nutr and Nat Res 1:1-13.
31. Stakman EC, Stewart DM, Loegering WQ. (1962) Identification of Physiologic Races of Puccinia graminis var. tritici. Washington, USA, United States Department of Agriculture, ARS, pp 1-53.
32. Szabo LJ. (2007) Development of simple sequence repeat markers for the plant pathogenic rust fungus, Puccinia graminis. Mol Ecol Notes 7:92-94.
33. Tessema T. (1991) Improvements of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia. In: Engels JMM, Hawkes JG, Worede M. (eds). Proc 1st International Symposium on the Conservation and Utilization of Ethiopian Germplasm, 13-16 October 1986. Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, Cambridge University Press, pp 288-295.
34. Valerio HM, Rèsende MA, Weikert-Oliveira RCB, Casela CR. (2005) Virulence and molecular diversity in Colletotrichum graminicola from Brazil. Mycopathologia 159:449-459.
35. Visser B, Herselman L, Pretorius ZA. (2009) Genetic comparison of Ug99 with selected South African races of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici. Mol Plant Pathol 10:213-222.
36. Wright S. (1951) The genetical structure of populations. Ann Eug 15:323-354.
37. Yeh FC, Yang RC, Boyle TBJ, Ye ZH, Mao JX. (1999) POPGENE: The User-Friendly Shareware for Population Genetic Analysis. Edmonton, AB, Canada University of Alberta.