Puccinia triticina causes 'wheat leaf rust', a fungal disease that infects wheat. It is the most common wheat disease and ocurrs in most wheat growing regions. The fungus is an obligate parasite producing infectious urediniospores that can infect plants hundreds of kilometers away when carried by the wind. The Puccinia triticina genome was released in July 2010 consisting of a 16X whole-genome shotgun assembly with a size of 162.95 Mb and encodes about 11600 protein-coding genes.

Browse this species genome in the Ensembl Genomes website.