Allium crops are commonly grown in South Africa and harvested as either fresh produce for the domestic and export markets or as seed. Apart from occasional outbreaks on garlic, rust is problematic as a cosmetic disease with unappealing uredinia regularly observed on freshly packed produce of bunching onion and leek in supermarkets. Spore morphology and phylogenetic analysis of five rust samples collected from A. fistulosum (bu...

Puccinia triticina ( Pt ) is an important pathogen of wheat. While breeding programmes develop resistant wheat cultivars to mitigate the effects of such rust-causing pathogens, the emergence of new rust races with wider virulence mandates the implementation of other control strategies. Our study investigated whether acidic pH conditions affected selected Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) in Pt- inoculated Thatcher + Lr9 (I...