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SUBMITTER: Brueggeman R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC123140 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brueggeman R R Rostoks N N Kudrna D D Kilian A A Han F F Chen J J Druka A A Steffenson B B Kleinhofs A A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20020620 14
Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici was among the most devastating diseases of barley in the northern Great Plains of the U.S. and Canada before the deployment of the stem rust-resistance gene Rpg1 in 1942. Since then, Rpg1 has provided durable protection against stem rust losses in widely grown barley cultivars (cvs.). Extensive efforts to clone Rpg1 by synteny with rice provided excellent flanking markers but failed to yield the gene because it does not seem to exist in rice. ...[more]