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Prins, R., Steffenson, B.J., Case, A.J., Boshoff, W.H.P., Agenbag, G. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2020. Assessments and perspectives on stem rust resistance in South African malting barley. Australasian Plant Pathology 49:679-690.
Maree, G.J., Castelyn, H.D., Bender, C.M., Boshoff, W.H.P. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2020. Comparing infection and colonisation of Puccinia graminis in barley and wheat. Australasian Plant Pathology 49: 431-445.
Pretorius, Z.A., Prins, R., Wessels, E., Bender, C.M., Visser, B., Boshoff, W.H.P. 2020. Accomplishments in wheat rust research in South Africa. SA J Science;116(11/12), Art. #7688, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.17159/ sajs.2020/7688.
Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A., Terefe, T. & Visser B. 2020. Occurrence and pathogenicity of Puccinia coronata var coronata f. sp. avenae on oat in South Africa. Crop Protection https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105144.
Kolmer, J.A., Herman, A., Ordoñez, M.E., German, S., Morgounov, A., Pretorius Z.A., Visser, B., Goyeau, H., Anikster, Y., Acevedo, M. 2020. Endemic and panglobal genetic groups, and divergence of host-associated forms in worldwide collections of the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina as determined by genotyping by sequencing. Heredity 124: 397-409 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0288-x.
Boshoff, WHP, Visser, B, Lewis, CM, Adams, TM, Saunders DGO, Terefe, T, Soko, T, Chiuraise, N and Pretorius, ZA. 2020. First report of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, causing stripe rust of wheat, in Zimbabwe. Plant Disease 104(1):290 https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-07-19-1395-PDN .
Li, F., Upadhyaya, N.M., Sperschneider, J., Matny, O., Nguyen-Phuc, H., Mago, R., Raley, C., Miller, M.E., Silverstein, K.A.T., Henningsen, E., Hirsch, C.D., Visser, B., Pretorius, Z.A., Steffenson, B.J., Schwessinger, B., Dodds, P.N., and Figueroa, M. 2019. Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation. Nature Communications 10:5068 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12927-7 .
Boshoff, W.H.P., Visser, B., Terefe, T and Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Diversity in Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae and its impact on oat cultivar response in South Africa. European Journal of Plant Pathology 155:1165-1177.
Kolmer, J.A., Ordoñez, M.E., German, S., Morgounov, A., Pretorius, Z., Visser, B., Goyeau, H., Anikster, Y., & Acevedo, M. 2019. Multilocus genotypes of the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina in worldwide regions indicate past and current long distance migration. Phytopathology 109:1453-1463.
Maree, G.J., Prins, R., Boyd, L., Castelyn, H.D., Bender, C.M., Boshoff, W.H.P. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Assessing the individual and combined effects of QTL for adult plant stripe rust resistance derived from Cappelle Desprez. Agronomy 9, article 154, 13 pp. doi:10.3390/agronomy9030154.
Saunders, D.G.O., Pretorius, Z.A. & Hovmoller, M.S. 2019. Tackling the re-emergence of wheat stem rust in Western Europe. Communications Biology 2:51, doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0294-9.
Terefe, T., Pretorius, Z.A., Visser, B. & Boshoff, W.H.P. 2019. First report of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race PTKSK, a variant of wheat stem rust race Ug99 in South Africa. Plant Disease 103(6) 1421. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-18-1911-PDN.
Boshoff, W.H.P., Bender, C.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. The value of field ratings of differential lines for pathotyping Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Europ J Plant Pathol 155:349-352.
Li, H., Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A., Zheng, Q., Li, B. & Li, Z. 2019. Establishment of wheat - Thinopyrum ponticum translocation lines with resistance to Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race Ug99. J Gen Genomics 46: 405-407.
Pretorius, Z.A., Booysen, G.J., Boshoff, W.H.P., Joubert, J., Maree, G.J. & Els, J. 2019. Additive manufacturing of devices used for collection and application of cereal rust urediniospores. Frontiers in Plant Science 10, article 639, 7 pp. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00639.
Wessels, E., Prins, R., Boshoff, W.H.P., Zurn, J., Acevedo, M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Mapping a Resistance Gene to Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in the Bread Wheat Cultivar ‘Matlabas’. Plant Disease 103: 2337 - 2344.
Yekelo, N., L. Rothmann, C.M. Bender, Z.A. Pretorius and W.H.P. Boshoff. 2019. Response of an international triticale collection to Puccinia triticina and Puccinia recondita and assessment of temperature sensitivity in leaf rust isolates, Cereal Research Communications 47(3): 496-505. https://doi.org/10.1556/0806.47.2019.23.
Maree, G.J., Prins, R., Bender, C.M., Boshoff, W.H.P., Negussie, T.G. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Phenotyping Kariega x Avocet S doubled haploid lines containing individual and combined adult plant stripe rust resistance loci. Plant Pathology 68(4): 659-668.
Boshoff, W.H.P., Prins, R., De Klerk, C., Krattinger, S.G., Bender, C.M., Maree, G.J., Rothmann, L. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Point inoculation method for measuring adult plant response of wheat to stripe rust infection. Plant Disease 103(6) 1228-1233.
Visser, B., Meyer, M., Park, R., Gilligan, C., Burgin, L.E., Hort, M.C., Hodson, D. and Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Microsatellite analysis and urediniospore dispersal simulations support the movement of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici from southern Africa to Australia. Phytopathology 109: 133-144 https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-18-0110-R).
Case, A.J., Sridhar Bhavani; Godwin Macharia; Zacharias Petorius; Vicky Coetzee; Frederick Kloppers; Priyanka Tyagi; Gina Brown-Guedira; Brian Steffenson. 2018. Mapping Adult Plant Stem Rust Resistance in Barley Accessions Hietpas-5 and GAW-79. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 131:2245-2266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-018-3149-8.
Boshoff, W.H.P., Bender, C.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2019. Reaction of South African rye, triticale and barley forage cultivars to stem and leaf rust. SA J Plant & Soil 36(2): 77-82 DOI: 10.1080/02571862.2018.1522381.
Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A., Terefe, T., Bender, C.M., Herselman, L., Maree, G.J. & Visser, B. 2018. Phenotypic and genotypic description of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race 2SA55 in South Africa. European J Plant Pathol. 152(3) 783-789 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-018-1527-3).
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Lewis, C.M., Persoons, A., Bebber, D.P., Kigathi, R.N., Maintz, J., Findlay, K., Bueno-Sancho, V., Corredor-Moreno, P., Harrington, S.A., Kangara, N., Berlin, A., García, R., Germán, S.E., Hanzalová, A., Hodson, D.P., Hovmøller, M.S., Huerta-Espino, J., Imtiaz, M., Mirza, J.I., Justesen, A.F., Niks, R.E., Omrani, A., Patpour, M., Pretorius, Z.A., Roohparvar, R., Sela, H., Singh, R.P., Steffenson, B., Visser, B., Fenwick, P.M., Thomas, J., Wulff, B.B.H. & Saunders, D.G.O. 2018. Potential for re-emergence of wheat stem rust in the UK. Communications Biology 1:13 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0013-y.
Zurn, J., Matthew Rouse; Shiaoman Chao; Meriem Aoun; Godwin Macharia; Colin Hiebert; Zacharias Pretorius; John Michael Bonman; Maricelis Acevedo. 2018. Dissection of the multigenic wheat stem rust resistance present in the Montenegrin spring wheat accession PI 362698. BMC Genomics 19:67. DOI 10.1186/s12864-018-4438-y.
Soko, T., Bender, C.M., Prins, R. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2018. Yield loss associated with different levels of stem rust resistance in bread wheat. Plant Disease 102: 2531-2538.
Millet, E., Steffenson, B., Sela, H., Allen, A. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2017. Genome targeted introgression of resistance to African stem rust from Aegilops sharonensis into bread wheat. The Plant Genome 10.3 1-11 doi: 10.3835/plantgenome2017.07.0061.
McTaggart, A.R., Beasly, D.R., Wingfield, M.J., Wood, A.R., Pretorius, Z.A., Drenth, A., Shivas, R.G. & Roux, J. 2017. A dynamic, web-based resource to identify rust fungi (Pucciniales) in southern Africa. MycoKeys 26:77-83.
Steffenson, B.J., A. J. Case, Z. A. Pretorius, V. Coetzee, F. J. Kloppers, H. Zhou, Y. Chai, R. Wanyera, S. Bhavani, and S. Grando. 2017. Potential Vulnerability of Barley to African Pathotypes of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and Sources of Resistance. Phytopathology 107:950-962.
Babiker, E.M., T. C. Gordon, S. Chao, M. N. Rouse, R. Wanyera, M. Newcomb, G. Brown-Guedira, Z. A. Pretorius & J. M. Bonman. 2016. Genetic mapping of resistance to the Ug99 race group of Puccinia graminis f. sp tritici in a spring wheat landrace CItr 4311. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 129(11) 2161-2170. doi 10.1007/s00122-016-2764-5.
Hongwei Li, Qi Zheng, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Bin Li, Dingzhong Tang, and Zhensheng Li. 2016. Establishment and characterization of new wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum addition and translocation lines with resistance to Ug99 races. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 43: 573-575. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2016.07.04.
Prins, R., S. Dreisigacker, Z. Pretorius, H. van Schalkwyk, E. Wessels, C. Smit, C. Bender, D. Singh, L. A. Boyd. 2016. Stem rust resistance in a geographically diverse collection of spring wheat lines collected from across Africa. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 973.
Bender, C.M., Prins, R, & Pretorius, Z.A. 2016. Development of a greenhouse screening method for adult plant resistance in wheat to stem rust. Plant Disease 100: 1627-1633.
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Rahmatov, M., Matthew Rouse, Staffan Andersson, Brian Steffenson Ruth Wanyera, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Andreas Houben, Nazari Kumarse, Sridhar Bhavani, and Eva Johansson. 2016. Sources of Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat-alien Introgression Lines. Plant Disease 100:1101-1109 http://dx.doi.org/10-94/PDIS12-15-1448RE.
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Babiker, E.M., T. C. Gordon, J. M. Bonman, S. Chao, M. N. Rouse, G. Brown-Guedira, S. Williamson & Z. A. Pretorius. 2016. Rapid identification of resistance loci effective against Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race TTKSK in 33 spring wheat landraces. Plant Disease 100:331-336.