Remarkable recent changes in genetic diversity of the avirulence gene AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
C. Stephens, F. Olmez, H. Blyth, M. McDonald, A. Bansal, E. B. Turgay, F. Hahn, C. Saintenac, V. Nekrasov, P. Solomon, A. Milgate, B. Fraaije, J. J. Rudd, K. Kanyuka
The paper analyzes changes in AvrStb6 genetic diversity in Zymoseptoria tritici isolates from 2013-2017, finding a loss of the original avirulence isoform and dominance of a single virulence isoform.
bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2020Microbiology