Talk:Puccinia coronata

Merger Proposal
I propose that details of all diseases caused by this pathogen be included in this article until such a time they are large enough to warrant spearate articles. Million_Moments 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge completed...quite awhile after I proposed it! Million_Moments (talk) 08:54, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments
You might want to take a look at the molecular level of plant pathogen resistance. As you’ve mentioned already about the hybrids that present themselves with the fungus, however, there has to have been some type of variation at the genotypic level that would lead to the resistance of the plant pathogen resistance. The following website has a few articles on it, that would relate well to the topic of rust fungus. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867400819121

Overall, I like the structure of the article, however, I think it might be better to add a few more of the more common varieties of the Puccinia Coronata, as just the "avenae" doesn't fully cover the differences that may exist in each individual strain. In addition, I believe it would be helpful to condense the second half of the section, Puccinia Coronata avenae, as there are multiple studies referenced, however, they aren't very concise. Fireblade7869 (talk)Fireblade7869 —Preceding undated comment added 21:42, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

I summarized the specific studies to present just the concepts rather than quantitative findings. I have looked for articles detailing virulence genes, but have been unable to find any specific to this topic, but I am continuing to look. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salenrs (talk • contribs) 15:40, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Your article was well written; it was easy to understand the significance of P. coronata avenae. To make this section easier to read, I would explain some of the terminology that you use, specifically your mention of uredospores and avenalumins. You could also elaborate on the applications of the resistance genes. It would be interesting to add information about how the resistance genes are being used, if they are. Evolution43 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:14, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I added checked for the descriptions of these terms and uredospores is explained in a section of the article, however, I did add a definition of avenalumins. Other parts of the article that I have not focused on have described the use of resistance genes for breeding. The information also states that it is a contralto evolving process.

In addition, I have edited for grammatical and comprehensive clarity. I have so removed specific study findings and quotations. Salenrs (talk) Salenrs (talk)

Very nice article! Your use of vocabulary and detailed explanations really made the subject interesting. I only made a few edits with wording and punctuation. Reading over the other comments and the changes you made it seems you did a good job of responding to their suggestions, all which I thought were helpful. There was a sentence that perhaps a word got deleted and you might want to check out, "One way in which the expression of certain____? has been found to combat P. coronata avenae is through the production of avenalumins." Biliken 1995 (talk) 20:38, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Great article. There was an abundance of information under the subheading 'Puccinia coronata avenae', so it was a little hard to focus. I suggest you organize the information into separate paragraphs. I got a tad bit confused when you kept bringing up 'inoculation', it would hep if you could explain exactly what that means. Also, you discuss that resistance is hypothesized to be specific to different strains of the pathogen. Why is resistance specific? because of outer-membrane proteins on the pathogen? If you elaborated, you could go into the evolutionary advantage of different strains and their ability to evade host defense. Spreetycakes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:19, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

For general formatting purposes, I have subdivided P. coronata avenae into smaller sections of relevant information. To make the article more clear and concise, I have removed information that wasn't necessary as well as combined sentences that joined ideas. I have also added citations where they were missing. In addition, I have hyperlinked topic words, such as host-parasite coevolution (a main idea in the understanding of virulence and resistance), in order to give the reader a fuller understanding of the article if used. Finally, I removed any references to specific studies and just summarized the ideas that had been presented in order to comply with Wikipedia guidelines. Salenrs (talk)