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Title:   Author  item
                                            GOMEZ, DON - Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)item
                                            MORIN, LOUISE - Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)item
                                            EVANS, KATHY - Tasmanian Institute Of Agricultural Researchitem
                                            Mahaffee, Walter

                                                         - *Walt*item
                                            Neill, Taraitem
                                            Grunwald, Niklaus

                                                         - *Nik*
  Submitted to: Molecular Ecology Resources
                                    Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 2/12/2010
                                    Publication  Date: 3/23/2010
                                    Citation: Gomez, D., Morin, L., Evans, K., Mahaffee, W.F., Neill, T.M., Grunwald, N.J. 2010. Development of 11 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the blackberry rust fungus Phragmidium violaceum. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10:576-579.Interpretive Summary: This research was conducted to develop a more rapid and cost effective method to assess the genetic diversity of Phragmidium violaceum (blackberry rust).  The genetic markers developed will help scientists to monitor genetic drift of introduced populations,discover isolates with potential to act as biological control agents of invasive blackberry, and look at factors influencing migration of the pathogen.
                                Technical Abstract: Eleven polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for the Uredinales fungus Phragmidium violaceum, which causes leaf rust on European blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L. aggregate). Allele frequency ranged between two and seventeen alleles per locus with no evidence of linkage disequilibrium among isolates from southern Australia (n=20) and the Pacific Northwest of the United States (n=27). These markers will be useful in studies investigating genetic diversity and evolution of P. violaceum in its introduced ranges in the United States and Australia.


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