“…The first significant changes in the racial composition of populations of the leaf rust pathogen on hexaploid common wheat (Triticum aestivum L. 2n = 42, BBAADD genome) in the former USSR territory occurred in the 1950s. During this period, an increase was noted in the occurrence of race 77 and its biotypes, as well as races 20, 21, 52, and others that were previously absent (Shopina, 1969;Sorokina and Solomatin, 1975). In 1965-1968, everywhere, both in Russia and around the world, the quantity of race 122 began to increase.…”