plants Article Mining of Leaf Rust Resistance Genes Content in Egyptian Bread Wheat Collection Mohamed A. M. Atia 1,* , Eman A. El-Khateeb 2, Reem M. Abd El-Maksoud 3 , Mohamed A. Abou-Zeid 4 , Arwa Salah 1 and Amal M. E. Abdel-Hamid 5 1 Molecular Genetics and Genome Mapping Laboratory, Genome Mapping Department, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza 12619, Egypt;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +20-1000164922 Abstract: Wheat is a major nutritional cereal crop that has economic and strategic value worldwide. The sustainability of this extraordinary crop is facing critical challenges globally, particularly leaf rust disease, which causes endless problems for wheat farmers and countries and negatively affects humanity’s food security. Developing effective marker-assisted selection programs for leaf rust Citation: Atia, M.A.M.; El-Khateeb, resistance in wheat mainly depends on the availability of deep mining of resistance genes within the E.A.; Abd El-Maksoud, R.M.; germplasm collections. This is the first study that evaluated the leaf rust resistance of 50 Egyptian Abou-Zeid, M.A.; Salah, A.; wheat varieties at the adult plant stage for two successive seasons and identified the absence/presence Abdel-Hamid, A.M.E.