Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors

Table 3 Predicted gene catalogue for each PST isolate and similarity to conserved eukaryotic proteins and PGT proteins

Species/isolate	No. proteins predicted	Median protein length (amino acids)	CEG matching sequences^a	PGT matching sequences^a
PGT	20,566	266	2,596 (94.5%)	-
PST-21	20,653	211	2,626 (95.6%)	13,301 (64.7%)
PST-43	21,036	197	2,637 (96.0%)	13,313 (64.7%)
PST-130	18,149	228	2,612 (95.1%)	13,214 (64.3%)
PST-87/7	20,688	161	2,508 (91.3%)	12,801 (62.2%)
PST-08/21	20,875	172	2,592 (94.3%)	13,183 (64.1%)

^a BLASTP, e-value ≤ 1e^-6. PGT, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Total PGT sequences: 20,566). CEG, Core eukaryotic genes (Total CEG sequences: 2,748).

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