Research Project: Surveillance, Pathogen Biology, and Host Resistance of Cereal Rusts

Location: Cereal Disease Lab

Publications (Clicking on the reprint icon will take you to the publication reprint.)

Mapping and characterization of the recessive leaf rust resistance gene Lr83 on wheat chromosome arm 1DS - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Kolmer, J.A., Bajgain, P., Rouse, M.N., Li, R., Zhang, P. 2023. Mapping and characterization of the recessive leaf rust resistance gene Lr83 on wheat chromosome arm 1DS. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136, Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04361-7.

The wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr43 encodes an unusual protein kinase - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Yu, G., Matny, O., Gourdoupis, S., Aljedaani, F.R., Wang, Y.L., Nürnberger, T., Johnson, R., Crean, E.E., Saur, I.M., Gardener, C., Yue, Y., Kangara, N., Steuernagel, B., Hayta, S., Smedley, M., Harwood, W., Patpour, M., Wu, S., Poland, J., Jones, J.D., Reuber, T.L., Ronen, M., Sharon, A., Rouse, M.N., Xu, S.S., Holušová, K., Bartoš, J., Molnár, I., Karafiátová, M., Hirt, H., Blilou, I., Jaremko, L., Doležel, J., Steffenson, B.J., Wulff, B.B. 2023. The wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr43 encodes an unusual protein kinase. Nature Genetics. 55:921-926. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1820134/v1.

Evaluation of stem rust disease in wheat fields by drone hyperspectral imaging - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Abdulridha, J., Min, A., Rouse, M.N., Kianian, S., Isler, V., Yang, C. 2023. Evaluation of stem rust disease in wheat fields by drone hyperspectral imaging. Sensors. 23(8). Article 4154. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23084154.

First report of Puccinia glechomatis, a rust fungus of creeping charlie, in Minnesota - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

First report of a rust fungus (Puccinia sp.) infecting lemongrass in Minnesota - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Greatens, N.J., Klejeski, N., Szabo, L.J., Jin, Y., Olivera, P.D. 2023. First report of a rust fungus (Puccinia sp.) infecting lemongrass in Minnesota. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/pdis-10-22-2314-pdn.

Barley MLA3 recognizes the host-specificity determinant PWL2 from rice blast (M. oryzae) - (Pre-print Publication)
Brabham, H.J., Gomez De La Cruz, D., Were, V., Shimizu, M., Saitoh, H., Hernandez-Pinzon, I., Green, P., Lorang, J., Fujisaki, K., Sato, K., Molnar, I., Simkova, H., Dolezel, J., Russell, J., Taylor, J., Smoker, M., Gupta, Y., Wolpert, T., Talbot, N.J., Terauchi, R., Moscou, M.J. 2022. Barley MLA3 recognizes the host-specificity determinant PWL2 from rice blast (M. oryzae). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.21.512921.

Comparison of meiotic transcriptomes of three maize inbreds with different origins reveals differences in cell cycle and recombination - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Gracia, N., Yin, L., Dukowic-Schulze, S., Milsted, C., Kianian, P.M., Kianian, S., Pawlowski, W.P., Chen, C. 2022. Comparison of meiotic transcriptomes of three maize inbreds with different origins reveals differences in cell cycle and recombination. BMC Genomics. 23. Article 702. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08922-w.

Genome-wide association mapping for field and seedling resistance to the emerging Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race TTRTF in wheat - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Negash, T., Edae, E.A., Tilahun, L., Anderson, J.A., Rouse, M.N., Bajgain, P. 2022. Genome-wide association mapping for field and seedling resistance to the emerging Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race TTRTF in wheat. The Plant Genome. 15(4). Article e20274. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20274.

High-resolution mapping of SrTm4, a recessive resistance gene to wheat stem rust - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Li, H., Luo, J., Zhang, W., Hua, L., Li, K., Wang, J., Xu, B., Yang, C., Wang, G., Rouse, M.N., Dubcovsky, J., Chen, S. 2023. High-resolution mapping of SrTm4, a recessive resistance gene to wheat stem rust. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136. Article 120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04369-z.

Wheat leaf rust in the United States in 2021 - (Other)
Kolmer, J.A., Fajolu, O.L. 2022. Wheat leaf rust in the United States in 2021. Wheat Newsletter. 68:44-51.

A novel locus conferring resistance to Puccinia hordei maps to the genomic region corresponding to Rph14 on barley chromosome 2HS - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Mehnaz, M., Dracatos, P., Dinh, H.X., Forest, K., Rouse, M.N., Park, R.F., Singh, D. 2022. A novel locus conferring resistance to Puccinia hordei maps to the genomic region corresponding to Rph14 on barley chromosome 2HS. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. Article 980870. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.980870.

Mapping and validation of all-stage resistance to stem rust in four South African winter wheat cultivars - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Chemonges, M., Herselman, L., Pretorius, Z.A., Rouse, M.N., Mare, A., Boshoff, W.H. 2022. Mapping and validation of all-stage resistance to stem rust in four South African winter wheat cultivars. Euphytica. 219. Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-022-03143-4.