“…Loegering and Burton reported that race-specific resistance genes in wheat cultivars could be identified by comparing their reactions to different Pst pathotypes with those of cultivars with known resistance genes (Loegering and Burton, 1974). Based on these concepts and methods, the most race-specific resistance genes, including Yr, Lr, Sr and Pm genes, which are present in host cultivars, have been postulated in the last 40 years (Flor, 1956;Wang et al, 1963;Dyck and Johnson, 1983;Stubbs, 1985;Chen and Hu, 1993;Niu et al, 2000;Li and Zeng, 2002;Yang et al, 2003;Yuan et al, 2007;Liu et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2011). About five hundred wheat cultivars were tested, and some resistance genes have been postulated since the 1990s, but very little information is available on the sources and efficacy of resistance to wheat cultivars in the Longnan region of Gansu province in China.…”