Andrew Milgate

Two Novel Genes, Stb23 and Stb24, Conferring Multi-stage Resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici: Rapid Deployment in Marker-Assisted Wheat Breeding

This study identifies two new resistance loci, Stb23 and Stb24, against Zymoseptoria tritici and develops KASP markers for their use in wheat breeding.

Sanctuary: A Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens

The paper identifies a mobile genetic element, Sanctuary, that facilitates horizontal transfer of the virulence gene ToxA among wheat-infecting fungal pathogens.

Revisiting the evolution and function of NIP2 parologs in the Rhynchosporium spp. complex

This study examines the evolution and function of NIP2 paralogs in Rhynchosporium commune, showing their genomic distribution, expression during infection, and potential virulence roles.

Extensive somatic nuclear exchanges shape global populations of the wheat leaf rust pathogen Puccinia triticina

The paper shows that somatic nuclear exchange in Puccinia triticina generates genetic diversity, leading to new strains through repeated shuffling of haploid nuclei between clonal lineages.

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and climatic adaptation of a major crop pathogen

The paper analyzes a thousand-genome panel of Zymoseptoria tritici to trace its global spread and identify genetic changes associated with climatic adaptation.

Multi-stage resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici revealed by GWAS in an Australian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) diversity panel

A GWAS study identifies three new QTLs associated with seedling-stage resistance, adult-plant stage resistance, and multi-stage resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici in an Australian wheat diversity panel.

Linked machine learning classifiers improve species classification of fungi when using error-prone long-reads on extended metabarcodes

This paper demonstrates that linked machine learning classifiers improve species classification of fungi using error-prone long-reads on extended metabarcodes, achieving high recall and low false positives.

Bivariate analysis of barley scald resistance with relative maturity reveals a new major QTL on chromosome 3H

Transposon mediated horizontal transfer of the host-specific virulence protein ToxA between three fungal wheat pathogens

The paper identifies a horizontally transferred 14kb genomic element containing the virulence gene ToxA among three fungal wheat pathogens, revealing transposon-mediated transfer and decay processes.