Melampsora larici-populina is one of the causal agents of poplar rust, the most important disease of poplars. It has reduced considerably the use of this tree for environmental and wood production purposes. The first symptoms appear on susceptible poplars showing small yellow spots on the upper leaf surface and a pale yellow to orange rust in the lower leaf surface (urediniospores that will reinfect other poplars). The genome sequence and assembly of the Melampsora larici-populina genome have been generated by the JGI under funding of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, and by the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The protein coding gene annotation of the Melampsora larici-populina genome have been generated by the JGI. The gene models were imported from the annotation submitted to EMBL-Bank as the whole shotgun sequencing set AECX00000000.

Browse this genome in the Ensembl Genomes website.