About Pyrenophora tritici-repentis

Pyrenophora triciti-repentis is the causal agent of 'tan spot', a major disease in most of common wheat varieties. It can be identified by looking at the leaves for dark oval shaped necrotic tissue with a yellow border.

• Birren B., Lander E., Galagan J., Nusbaum C., Devon K., Ma L.-J., Jaffe D., Butler J., Alvarez P., Gnerre S., Grabherr M., Kleber M., Mauceli E., Brockman W., MacCallum I.A., Young S., LaButti K., DeCaprio D., Crawford M., Koehrsen M., Engels R., Montgomery P., Pearson M., Howarth C., Larson L., White J., Yandava C., Kodira C., Zeng Q., O'Leary S., Alvarado L., Ciuffetti L., Pandelova I., Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Picture credits: ACNFP(Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens), Curtin University, Western Australia. Taken by Kasia Clarke and Caroline Moffat.

Taxonomy ID 426418

Data source European Nucleotide Archive

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