ABSTRACT Most barley cultivars are resistant to stripe rust of wheat that is caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. The barley cv. Steptoe is susceptible to all identified races of P. striiformis f. sp. hordei (PSH), the barley stripe rust pathogen, but is resistant to most P. striiformis f. sp. tritici races. To determine inheritance of the Steptoe resistance to P. striiformis f. sp. t...

Breeding wheat with durable resistance to the fungal pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), a major threat cereal production, is challenging due rapid evolution of virulence. Increased durability and broad-spectrum can be achieved by introducing more than one gene, but combining numerous unlinked genes breeding laborious. Here we generate polygenic Pgt transgene cassette five into bre...