Phakopsora

Phakopsora nishidana

  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Visser, B., Bender, C.M., Wood, A.R., Wilson, K., Hamilton-Atwell, V.L. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2022. Fig rust caused by Phakopsora nishidana in South Africa. Phytopathologia Mediterranea 61(2): 283-298 doi: 10.36253/phyto-13034.

Phakopsora pachyrhizi

  • Pretorius, Z.A., Kloppers, F.J. & Frederick, R.D. 2001. First report of soybean rust in South Africa. Plant Disease 85: 1288.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Visser, B. & Du Preez, P.J. 2007. First report of Asian Soybean Rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) on kudzu in South Africa. Plant Disease 91: 1364.

Puccinia

Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae

  • Van Niekerk, B.D. Pretorius, Z.A. & Boshoff, W.H.P. 2001. Pathogenic variability of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae and P. graminis f. sp. avenae on oat in South Africa. Plant Disease 85: 1085-1090.
  • 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 133 article 105144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105144.

Puccinia digitariae

  • Boshoff, WHP, Wood, AR, Visser B, Bender, CM, Joubert, L, Richter, J, Aime, MC, & Pretorius, ZA. 2022. The life cycle of Puccinia digitariae on Digitaria eriantha and Solanum species in South Africa. Mycologia 114(2): 319-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2022.2031493.

Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae

  • Van Niekerk, B.D., Pretorius, Z.A. & Boshoff, W.H.P. 2001. Potential yield losses caused by barley leaf rust and oat leaf and stem rust to South African barley and oat cultivars. SA J Plant & Soil 18: 108-113.
  • 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.

Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici

  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A., Van Niekerk, B.D. & Komen, J.S. 2002. First report of virulence in Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici to wheat stem rust resistance genes Sr8B and Sr38 in South Africa. Plant Disease 86: 922.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Pakendorf, K.W., Marais, G.F., Prins, R. & Komen, J.S. 2007. Challenges for sustainable control of cereal rust diseases in South Africa. Aust J Agric Research 58: 593-601.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Singh, R.P., Wagoire, W.W. & T.S Payne. 2000. Detection of virulence to wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr31 in Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Uganda. Plant Disease 84: 203.
  • Visser, B., Herselman, L. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2009. Genetic comparison of Ug99 with selected South African races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Molecular Plant Pathology 10 (2): 213-222.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Bender, C.M., Visser, B. & Terefe, T. 2010. First report of a Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race virulent to the Sr24 and Sr31 wheat stem rust resistance genes in South Africa. Plant Disease 94 (6): 784-785. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-6-0784C.
  • Visser, B., Herselman, L., Park, R.F., Karaoglu, H., Bender, C.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2011. Characterization of two new Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici races within the Ug99 lineage in South Africa. Euphytica 179:119-127. DOI: 10.1007/s10681-010-0269-x.
  • Mukoyi, F., Soko, T., Mulima, E., Mutari, B., Hodson, D., Herselman, L., Visser, B. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2011. Detection of variants of wheat stem rust race Ug99 (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Plant Disease 95:1188 DOI:10.1094/PDIS-04-11-0300.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Jin, Y., Bender, C.M., Herselman, L. & Prins, R. 2012. Seedling resistance to stem rust race Ug99 and marker analysis for Sr2, Sr24 and Sr31 in South African wheat cultivars and lines. Euphytica 186(1):15-23 DOI 10.1007/s10681-011-0476-0.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Szabo, L.J., Boshoff, W.H.P., Herselman, L. & Visser, B. 2012. First report of a new TTKSF race of wheat stem rust ( Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Plant Disease 96: 590. doi:10.1094/PDIS-12-11-1027-PDN.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., R. Prins, P. K. Malaker, N.C.D. Barma, M.A. Hakim, D. Thapa, U. Bansal, G. L. Cisar, & R. F. Park. 2015. Assessing the vulnerability of wheat germplasm from Bangladesh and Nepal to African stem rust. Phytoparasitica 43:637-645.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bender, C.M., Boshoff, W.H.P. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2021. Infection and colonization of triticale by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Can J Plant Pathol. 43(2): S198-S210. https://doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2021.1931453.
  • Fetch, T.G., Park, R.F., Pretorius, Z.A. & DePauw, R.M. 2021. Stem rust: its history in Kenya and research to combat a global wheat threat. Can J Plant Pathol. 43(2): S275-S297. https://doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2021.1902860.
  • Chemonges, M., Herselman, L., Pretorius, Z.A.,Maré, A. and Willem H.P. Boshoff. 2022. Characterisation of stem rust resistance in the South African winter wheat cultivar PAN 3161. Euphytica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-022-03087-9 (online 7 Sep 22).
  • Chemonges, M., Herselman, L., Pretorius, Z.A., Rousem M.N., Maré, A. and Willem H.P. Boshoff. 2023. Mapping and validation of all‑stage resistance to stem rust in four South African winter wheat cultivars, Euphytica https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-022-03143-4 (online 21 Dec 22).
  • Pretorius Z. A., Ayliffe M., Bowden R. L., Boyd L. A., DePauw R. M., Jin Y., Knox R. E., McIntosh R. A., Park R. F., Prins R., and Lagudah E. S. 2017. Advances in control of wheat rusts. Pages 295-343 in: P. Langridge (ed.). Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1: Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing , Cambridge, UK (ISBN: 978 1 78676 016 6; www.bdspublishing.com).
  • Pretorius, Z.A. and Boshoff, W.H.P. 2022. Cereal rust pathology. Pages 85-89 in: History of Plant Pathology in South Africa. Eds. TA Couthinho & M.J. Wingfield. Briza Publications, Pretoria.

Puccinia helianthi

  • Meyer, W., Boshoff, W.H.P., Minnaar-Ontong, A., Young, A.J., Kong, G., Thompson, S., Pretorius, Z.A., Visser, B. 2021. Phenotypic and genotypic variation of Puccinia helianthi in South Africa. Plant Disease 105: 1482-1489. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-09-20-1903-RE.

Puccinia hordei

  • Van Niekerk, B.D. Pretorius, Z.A. & Boshoff, W.H.P. 2001. Occurrence and pathogenicity of Puccinia hordei on barley in South Africa. Plant Disease 85:713-717.
  • Spelman, Z, Visser B, Terefe TG, Pretorius ZA, Boshoff WHP. 2022. Pathogenicity and microsatellite characterisation of Puccinia hordei in South Africa. Crop Protection 158, August 2022, 106014 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2022.106014.

Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A. Van Niekerk, B.D. 2003. Fungicide efficacy and the impact of stripe rust on spring and winter wheat in South Africa. SA J Plant & Soil 20: 11-17.
  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A. & Van Niekerk, B.D. 2002. Resistance in South African and foreign wheat cultivars to pathotypes 6E16A- and 6E22A- of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. SA J Plant & Soil 19: 27-36.
  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A. & Van Niekerk, B.D. 2002. Establishment, distribution and pathogenicity of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in South Africa. Plant Disease 86:485-492.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Pienaar, L. & Prins, R. 2007. Greenhouse and field assessment of adult plant resistance to stripe rust of wheat. Australasian Plant Pathology 36: 552-559.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., Bender, C.M. & Visser, B. 2015. The rusts of wild rye in South Africa. SA J Bot 96:94-98.
  • Visser, B., Liezel Herselman and Zacharias A. Pretorius. 2016. Microsatellite characterization of South African Puccinia striiformis races. SA J Plant & Soil 33(3): 161-166. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02571862.2015.1125957).
  • Pretorius, Z.A., C.X. Lan, R. Prins, V. Knight, N.W. McLaren, R.P. Singh C.M. Bender, & F.J. Kloppers. 2017. Application of remote sensing to identify adult plant resistance loci to stripe rust in two bread wheat mapping populations. Precision Agriculture 18: 411-428. DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9461-x.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Puccinia triticina

  • Snyman, L., Pretorius, Z.A., Kloppers, F.J. & Marais, G.F. 2004. Detection of adult-plant resistance to Puccinia triticina in a collection of wild Triticum species. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 51: 591-597.
  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A. & Van Niekerk, B.D. 2002. Impact of leaf rust on spring wheat in the winter rainfall region of South South Africa. SA J Plant & Soil 19: 84-88.
  • Pretorius, Z.A. & Bender, C.M. 2010. First report of virulence for the wheat leaf rust ( Puccinia triticina) resistance gene Lr32 in South Africa. Plant Disease 94(3) 381. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-3-0381A.
  • Visser, B., Herselman, L., Bender, C.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2012. Microsatellite analysis of selected Puccinia triticina races in South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology 41:165-171. Doi:10.1007/s13313-011-0104-4.
  • Pretorius, Z.A., B. Visser, T. Terefe, L. Herselman, R. Prins, T. Soko, J. Siwale, B. Mutari, T.I. Selinga, D.P. Hodson. 2015. Races of Puccinia triticina detected on wheat in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi and regional germplasm responses. Australasian Plant Pathology 44:217-224.
  • Boshoff, W.H.P., Labuschagne, R., Terefe, T., Pretorius, Z.A. & Visser, B. 2018. New Puccinia triticina races on wheat in South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology 47:325-334.
  • 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.
  • Labuschagne, R. Venter, E., Boshoff, W.H.P., Pretorius, Z.A., Terefe, T. & Visser B. 2021. Historical development of the South African Puccinia triticina population. Plant Disease 105: 2445-2452. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-10-20-2301-RE.

Puccinia sorghi

  • Dunhin, B., Pretorius, Z.A., Kloppers, F.J., Bender, C.M. & Flett, B. 2004. Descriptions of spore stages of Puccinia sorghi in South Africa. SA J Plant & Soil 21: 48-52.

Uromyces

Uromyces appendiculatus

  • Liebenberg, M.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2004. Inheritance of resistance to Uromyces appendiculatus in the South African dry bean cultivar Kranskop. SA J Plant & Soil 21: 245-250.
  • Liebenberg, M.M., Liebenberg, A.J. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2005. Breeding for rust resistance increases dry bean productivity in the South Africa. SA J Plant & Soil 22: 129-139.
  • Liebenberg, M.M., Mienie, C.M.S. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2006. The occurrence of rust resistance gene Ur-13 in common bean cultivars and lines. Euphytica 150: 365-386.
  • Liebenberg, M.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2011. Pathogenic diversity in and sources of resistance to Uromyces appendiculatus in southern Africa. J Phytopathology 159(4): 287-297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0434.2010.01763.x.
  • Liebenberg, M.M. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2010. Common bean rust: pathology and control. Pages 1-99 in: Horticultural Reviews Vol 37, ed. J. Janik, Wiley-Blackwell.

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