Virulence Diversity of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici in Common Wheat in Russian Regions in 2019–2021

Elena Gultyaeva (), Ekaterina Shaydayuk and Evsey Kosman
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Elena Gultyaeva: All Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Shosse Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg 1986608, Russia
Ekaterina Shaydayuk: All Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Shosse Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg 1986608, Russia
Evsey Kosman: Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: Yellow (stripe) rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici ( Pst ), is a major disease of common wheat worldwide. Disease epidemics in Russia have been frequent and destructive, mostly in the North Caucasus. However, over the last 5 years, the significance of Pst has markedly increased in other Russian regions. Therefore, the Pst virulence diversity was investigated in Triticum aestivum in six geographically distant regions of the European (North Caucasus, North-West, Low Volga, Central Black Earth region, and Volga-Vyatka) and Asian (West Siberia) parts of Russia, with strongly different climates, environmental conditions, and growing wheat genotypes. Seventy-nine virulence pathotypes among 117 isolates were identified using the 12 Avocet Yr gene lines ( Yr1 , Yr5 , Yr6 , Yr7 , Yr8 , Yr9 , Yr10, Yr15 , Yr17 , Yr24 , Yr27, and YrSp ) and eight supplemental wheat differentials (Heines VII, Vilmorin 23, Hybrid 46, Strubes Dickkopf, Carstens V, Suwon 92/Omar, Nord Desprez, and Heines Peko). Only four pathotypes occurred in two or more regions. High variability was detected within Pst populations from Dagestan, Central, North-West, and West Siberia that postulated to form an intrapopulation subdivision of each of them into several subgroups. Most regional virulence groups of pathotypes were closely related, except for several small subgroups of pathotypes from West Siberia, Dagestan, North-West, and Central European regions. All Pst isolates were avirulent in lines with Yr5 , Yr10 , Yr15, and Yr24 genes. Virulence to Yr17 was detected for several isolates of two pathotypes, one each from the North-West and Low Volga regions. Variation in virulence frequency was observed in other differential lines.

Keywords: population structure; race composition; Triticum aestivum; virulence; yellow rust; Yr genes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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