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Field pathogenomics reveals the emergence of a diverse wheat yellow rust population.
Genome biology - 25 Feb 2015
Hubbard Amelia, Lewis Clare M, Yoshida Kentaro, Ramirez-Gonzalez Ricardo H, de Vallavieille-Pope Claude, Thomas Jane, Kamoun Sophien, Bayles Rosemary, Uauy Cristobal, Saunders Diane G O
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BACKGROUND: Emerging and re-emerging pathogens imperil public health and global food security. Responding to these threats requires improved surveillance and diagnostic systems. Despite their potential, genomic tools have not been readily applied to emerging or re-emerging plant pathogens such as the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST). This is due largely to the obligate...
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