Rates of evolution of avirulence phenotypes and DNA markers in a northwest European population of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

• Published in: Molecular ecology Vol. 16; no. 21; pp. 4637 - 4647
• Main Authors: HOVMØLLER, MOGENS S, JUSTESEN, ANNEMARIE F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2007; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: AFLP; Agriculture; alleles; amplified fragment length polymorphism; Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis; Basidiomycota - genetics; Basidiomycota - isolation & purification; Basidiomycota - pathogenicity; clonal evolution; Crop diseases; Crop management; Denmark; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Ecology; ecosystems; Europe; Evolution, Molecular; Evolutionary biology; Farming systems; Fungal infections; fungi; Genetic Markers; humans; loci; Molecular biology; Mutation; mutation rate; Pathogens; Phenotype; Phenotypes; Phylogeny; Plant breeding; Plant Diseases - microbiology; Polymorphism, Genetic; Puccinia striiformis; Puccinia striiformis f. tritici; stripe rust; Triticum aestivum; United Kingdom; virulence; Virulence - genetics; Wheat; wheat stripe rust; Europe; United Kingdom > UK; Denmark; United Kingdom

The effects of evolutionary processes in fungal pathogen populations may occur more rapidly and display larger effects in agricultural systems than in wild ecosystems because of human involvement by plant breeding and crop management. In this study, we analysed the rate of evolution in three lineage...