Diversifying selection in the wheat stem rust fungus acts predominantly on pathogen-associated gene families and reveals candidate effectors

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Sperschneider, Jana ^a   Ying, Hua ^a   Dodds, Peter N ^a   Gardiner, Donald M ^a   Upadhyaya, Narayana M ^a   Singh, Karam B ^a,b   Manners, John M ^a   Taylor, Jennifer M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Avirulence; Effector; Fungal pathogens; Puccinia graminis; Rust; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907348558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00372     Document Type: Article

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