GeneticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation
Feng Li, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Jana Sperschneider…·Melania Figueroa
The paper shows that the Ug99 wheat stem rust pathogen emerged through somatic hybridisation and nuclear exchange between dikaryons, with one haploid nucleus genotype shared with an older African lineage.
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