Wheat and barley stripe rust pan-genome facilitates discovery of the predominant North American lineage's origin in somatic hybridization
Samuel Holden, Meng Li, Mehrdad Abbasi, Ramandeep Kaur Bamrah, Sang Hu Kim, Sean Formby, Janice M. Bamforth, Sean Walkowiak, Andrew J. Friskop, Upinder Gill, BRENT D. McCALLUM, Harpinder Singh Randhawa, Hadley Randal Kutcher, Valentyna Klymiuk, Guus Bakkeren, , Gurcharn Singh Brar
The paper identifies the origin of the predominant North American Pst lineage, PstS18, as a somatic hybridization event between PstS1 and an unknown lineage.
bioRxiv · Oct 24, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology