Weihang Sun, Haitao Dong, Shengjie Liu, Shengwei Ma, Qingdong Zeng, Jihu Li, Ke Ke, Wenjie Yue, Wenjing Zhang, Xinrui Fang, Jinyu Han, Xinying Zhou, Jiwen Zhao, Guanghao Guo, Genying Li, Genying Li, Xinyou Cao, Weijun Zheng, Chunlian Li, Zhensheng Kang, Dejun Han, Gang Li, Gang Li, Gang Li, Xiaojie Wang, Jianhui Wu
Plant pathogens are a major constraint in agriculture, causing numerous diseases that globally reduce both crop quality and yield. Yellow rust (YR), also known as stripe rust, is caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. (Pst) and is one of the most serious fungal diseases of wheat. Due to reduced resistance (R) gene diversity in wheat, the Pst pathogen frequently overcomes plant defenses, thereby leading to YR epidemics. Although 87 yellow rust resistance (Yr) genes are formally named and more than 300 quantitative trait loci are designated and listed in the wheat gene catalog (McIntosh, 2024), only 11 (about 3%) have been cloned (Li et al., 2025).