title: Mycosphaerella graminicola: from genomics to disease control.
abstract: This Mycosphaerella graminicola pathogen profile covers recent advances in the knowledge of this ascomycete fungus and of the disease it causes, septoria tritici blotch of wheat. Research on this pathogen has accelerated since publication of a previous pathogen profile in this journal in 2002. Septoria tritici blotch continues to have high economic importance and widespread global impact on wheat production.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mycosphaerella graminicola (Fuckel) J. Schröt. In Cohn (anamorph: Septoria tritici Roberge in Desmaz.). Kingdom Fungi, Phylum Ascomycota, Class Loculoascomycetes (filamentous ascomycetes), Order Dothideales, Genus Mycosphaerella, Species graminicola.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bread and durum wheat (Triticum aestivum L. and T. turgidum ssp. durum L.). Disease symptoms: Initially leaves develop a chlorotic flecking, which is followed by the development of necrotic lesions which contain brown-black pycnidia. Necrosis causes a reduction in photosynthetic capacity and therefore affects grain yield. Disease control: The disease is primarily controlled by a combination of resistant cultivars and fungicides. Rapid advances in disease control, especially in resistance breeding, are opening up new opportunities for the management of the disease.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Mycgr3/Mycgr3.home.html.
authors.affiliation: Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK. elizabeth.orton@bbsrc.ac.uk
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Orton
authors.forename: Sian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deller
authors.forename: James K M
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D016681:Genome, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D014908:Triticum / Q000382:microbiology*