Puccinia triticina - GCA_000151525.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Puccinia triticina

Wheat leaf rust is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley, rye stems, leaves and grains. In temperate zones it is destructive on winter wheat because the pathogen overwinters. Infections can lead up to 20% yield loss. The pathogen is a Puccinia rust fungus. It is the most prevalent of all the wheat rust diseases, occurring in most wheat-growing regions. It causes serious epidemics in North America, Mexico and South America and is a devastating seasonal disease in India. P. triticina is heteroecious, requiring two distinct hosts.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The Puccinia triticina (race 1, isolate 1-1) genome was generated and assembled by Broad Institute of MIT and released in July 2010 consisting of a 16X whole-genome shotgun assembly with a size of 162.95 Mb.

Annotation

The annotation has been imported from VEuPathDB.

References

1. Gene discovery in EST sequences from the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina sexual spores, asexual spores and haustoria, compared to other rust and corn smut fungi.
   Xu J, Linning R, Fellers J, Dickinson M, Zhu W, Antonov I, Joly DL, Donaldson ME, Eilam T, Anikster Y et al. 2011. BMC Genomics. 12:161.