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The Primary Disease Gradient of Wheat Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) Across Spatial Scales

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Farber, Daniel

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Wheat stripe rust (WSR), also called yellow rust of wheat (Tricitum spp.), causal agent Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (Pst), is a foliar disease of major economic importance on wheat, especially grown in temperate locations. WSR causes major losses of wheat yield, estimated at nearly $ 1 billion per year, and...

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or R gene resistance, in which the infected cell of a host recognizes a specific effector compound
Insights into the pathology and epidemiology of Phytophthora ramorum, causal agent of sudden oak death

Creator:

Daniels, Hazel A.

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Sudden oak death is caused by the clonally reproducing generalist oomycete Phytophthora ramorum. The pathogen can infect more than 130 different plant hosts including Quercus spp., Larix kaempferi, and Notholithocarpus densiflorus, as well as common nursery genera such as Rhododendron and Camelia, where it causes symptoms ranging from bleeding cankers...

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. Thanks to Kelsey Søndreli, Ebba Peterson, and Ellie Kurth for patiently answering my questions in lab