Shideh Mojerlou

This study shows that wheat- and barley-adapted Puccinia striiformis can sexually hybridize on a shared alternate host, producing progeny with novel host phenotypes.

The paper presents a high-quality, haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the barley stripe rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei using long-read and Hi-C sequencing.

The paper clones AvrYr7, an effector gene in wheat stripe rust, and identifies variants that evade recognition by the resistance gene Yr7 through sequence and expression differences.