Melampsora lini infection of flax. Image provided by Dr. Peter
Dodds
Rust fungi are one of the largest and most destructive groups of plant pathogens. They are obligate biotrophs which require a living host for survival.
Melampsora lini, the causal agent of flax rust, has long been recognized as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions (Flor, 1955). This HiFi assembly of the dikaryotic flax rust genome is an improvement over the previously assembled short-read version (Nemri et al., 2014) and is phased to assess haplotype diversity.
Genome Reference(s)
Please cite the following publication(s) if you use the data from this genome in your research:
Sperschneider J, Chen J, Anderson C, Morin E, Zhang X, Lewis D, Henningsen E, Grigoriev IV, Rathjen JP, Jones DA, Duplessis S, Dodds PN
A Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Flax Rust Fungus Reveals the Two Unusually Large Effector Proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2025 May 28;():. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-04-25-0047-R
Sperschneider J, Chen J, Anderson C, Morin E, Zhang X, Lewis D, Henningsen E, Grigoriev IV, Rathjen JP, Jones DA, Duplessis S, Dodds PN
A Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Flax Rust Fungus Reveals the Two Unusually Large Effector Proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2025 May 28;():. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-04-25-0047-R
