Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022

Leaf rust is a major wheat disease in southern Spain, where durum wheat is an important crop. Until the 2019/2020 season, this disease was effectively managed, as the most widely planted cultivars in southern Spain had effective resistance genes. A problem arose in the spring of 2020, when every far...

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Main Authors: Jaime Nolasco RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ, Karim AMMAR, Ignacio SOLIS, Fernando MARTINEZ-MORENO
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Published: Firenze University Press 2023-04-01
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Ignacio SOLIS
Fernando MARTINEZ-MORENO
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description Leaf rust is a major wheat disease in southern Spain, where durum wheat is an important crop. Until the 2019/2020 season, this disease was effectively managed, as the most widely planted cultivars in southern Spain had effective resistance genes. A problem arose in the spring of 2020, when every farm field and durum wheat trial examined displayed leaf rust symptoms. Leaves had few but large uredinial pustules, different from those of the normal leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina, and telia developed rapidly after only a few days. The symptoms clearly fitted with P. tritici-duri, another wheat leaf rust species already reported in the western Mediterranean Basin. This species is not new in southern Spain but has never been observed at such high severity on almost every durum wheat cultivar grown in that region. Leaf rust severity was assessed in durum wheat field trials in the 2020, 2021 and 2022 growing seasons in four provinces of southern Spain. During 2020 and 2021, 13 single pustule isolates of leaf rust were also collected from different cultivars of durum wheat. Inoculation of the isolates on a differential host set showed that four different races were present, two being of P. tritici-duri. Only cultivar Calero showed consistent resistance to the races of P. tritici-duri employed in this study.
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spelling doaj-art-607b11f3c1c94cfab68b54ef9a76e15a2025-08-20T03:08:35ZengFirenze University PressPhytopathologia Mediterranea0031-94651593-20952023-04-01621293410.36253/phyto-1422713064Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022Jaime Nolasco RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6352-6793Karim AMMAR1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2436-9200Ignacio SOLIS2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4807-1070Fernando MARTINEZ-MORENO3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5852-1851Department of Agronomy, University of Seville, ETSIA, Ctra de Utrera km 1, 41013 SevilleCIMMYT, Carretera México-Veracruz, km. 45, El Batán, Texcoco 56237Department of Agronomy, University of Seville, ETSIA, Ctra de Utrera km 1, 41013 SevilleDepartment of Agronomy, University of Seville, ETSIA, Ctra de Utrera km 1, 41013 SevilleLeaf rust is a major wheat disease in southern Spain, where durum wheat is an important crop. Until the 2019/2020 season, this disease was effectively managed, as the most widely planted cultivars in southern Spain had effective resistance genes. A problem arose in the spring of 2020, when every farm field and durum wheat trial examined displayed leaf rust symptoms. Leaves had few but large uredinial pustules, different from those of the normal leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina, and telia developed rapidly after only a few days. The symptoms clearly fitted with P. tritici-duri, another wheat leaf rust species already reported in the western Mediterranean Basin. This species is not new in southern Spain but has never been observed at such high severity on almost every durum wheat cultivar grown in that region. Leaf rust severity was assessed in durum wheat field trials in the 2020, 2021 and 2022 growing seasons in four provinces of southern Spain. During 2020 and 2021, 13 single pustule isolates of leaf rust were also collected from different cultivars of durum wheat. Inoculation of the isolates on a differential host set showed that four different races were present, two being of P. tritici-duri. Only cultivar Calero showed consistent resistance to the races of P. tritici-duri employed in this study.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/14227leaf rustvirulenceresistancetelia
spellingShingle Jaime Nolasco RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ
Karim AMMAR
Ignacio SOLIS
Fernando MARTINEZ-MORENO
Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
Phytopathologia Mediterranea
leaf rust
virulence
resistance
telia
title Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
title_full Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
title_fullStr Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
title_full_unstemmed Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
title_short Virulence of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia tritici-duri on durum wheat in southern Spain, from 2020 to 2022
title_sort virulence of puccinia triticina and puccinia tritici duri on durum wheat in southern spain from 2020 to 2022
topic leaf rust
virulence
resistance
telia
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/14227
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