Join the Expert Working Group on Wheat Pathogens in their webinar:
Dr. Guus Bakkeren and his talk “Tackling wheat leaf rust through pathogen and host genomics”.
Dr. Guus Bakkeren is a research scientists in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Summerland BC. He has been working on plant pathogen interactions for the past 30 years and with a focus on effectors and fungal pathogens such as smut and cereal rust. The abstract of his talk: The basidiomycete fungus Puccinia triticina (Pt), causing Wheat Leaf Rust disease, is an obligate pathogen of wheat and is a worldwide scourge resulting in significant crop losses annually. The genomics era has in a major way advanced insight into the biology and the evolution of the populations of this fungus, as well as the interaction with its host including defense responses in wheat. I will present an assessment of genetic diversity and mating types among a large collection of Canadian, US and Mexican fungal isolates using whole genome and RNA-derived sequences and put this NA population diversity in a global context. I will also outline approaches to identify and assess functions of Pt avirulence effectors.
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