Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat

Wheat diseases are caused by a wide range of organisms. Among the economically most significant are the necrotrophic pathogens from the order Pleosporales: Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and Parastagonospora nodorum. They cause the diseases tan spot and Septoria nodorum blotch, respectively. They are...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oliver, Richard, Tan, Kar-Chun, Moffat, Caroline
Format: Book Chapter
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40600
_version_ 1848755915045470208
author Oliver, Richard
Tan, Kar-Chun
Moffat, Caroline
author_facet Oliver, Richard
Tan, Kar-Chun
Moffat, Caroline
author_sort Oliver, Richard
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Wheat diseases are caused by a wide range of organisms. Among the economically most significant are the necrotrophic pathogens from the order Pleosporales: Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and Parastagonospora nodorum. They cause the diseases tan spot and Septoria nodorum blotch, respectively. They are the top two diseases in Western Australia and probably underreported in other parts of the world. Recent molecular research has developed a novel understanding of these pathogens. They produce secreted effectors (mostly proteins) that induce necrotic symptoms on sensitive genotypes of wheat. Recognition in wheat is encoded by specific sensitivity loci. The amount of disease is a function of the number of effectors produced by the pathogen for which matching recognition alleles are expressed in the wheat cultivar. This understanding has opened up a new rationale for wheat disease breeding that relies on the removal of sensitivity alleles from wheat germplasm.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T09:03:53Z
format Book Chapter
id curtin-20.500.11937-40600
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T09:03:53Z
publishDate 2016
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-406002017-09-13T14:08:49Z Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat Oliver, Richard Tan, Kar-Chun Moffat, Caroline Wheat diseases are caused by a wide range of organisms. Among the economically most significant are the necrotrophic pathogens from the order Pleosporales: Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and Parastagonospora nodorum. They cause the diseases tan spot and Septoria nodorum blotch, respectively. They are the top two diseases in Western Australia and probably underreported in other parts of the world. Recent molecular research has developed a novel understanding of these pathogens. They produce secreted effectors (mostly proteins) that induce necrotic symptoms on sensitive genotypes of wheat. Recognition in wheat is encoded by specific sensitivity loci. The amount of disease is a function of the number of effectors produced by the pathogen for which matching recognition alleles are expressed in the wheat cultivar. This understanding has opened up a new rationale for wheat disease breeding that relies on the removal of sensitivity alleles from wheat germplasm. 2016 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40600 10.1016/B978-0-12-394437-5.00240-0 restricted
spellingShingle Oliver, Richard
Tan, Kar-Chun
Moffat, Caroline
Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title_full Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title_fullStr Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title_full_unstemmed Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title_short Necrotrophic Pathogens of Wheat
title_sort necrotrophic pathogens of wheat
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40600