This work combined with several others mentioned in the discussion points to the importance of defense suppressing effectors in the wheat stripe rust system similar to what has been shown for wheat powdery mildew most recently. Hence phenotypic pathotypes might not only be explained by classic Avr/R

Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n

We have just submitted a haplotype-resolved, chromosome-scale genome assembly of the barley stripe rust (P. striiformis f. sp. hordei) using ONT + Hi-C (nuclear + mtDNA). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Amazing Team from ANU×Aarhus University 🇦🇺🇩🇰 @schwessinger.bsky.social @ritatam.bsky.social

Our first wheat stripe rust Avr effector story. It is a short one that points to suppressors in this pathosystem while we could not link this Avr effector to a described R gene. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beyond Asexual: Genomics-Driven Progress in Unveiling Sexual Reproduction in Cereal Rust Fungi | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....

Fungal 'sex' is so cool and def gender bending ;). Go check out our @plos.org pathogen perl "Sexual recombination in cereal rust fungi: Knowns and unknowns of pathogen evolution and adaptation" journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

📜 Sexual recombination in cereal rust fungi: Knowns and unknowns of pathogen evolution and adaptation

🧑‍🔬 Shideh Mojerlou, @schwessinger.bsky.social, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba

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