| Pst | Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici |
| U.S. | United States |
| MLG | Multi-locus genotype |
| MG | Molecular group |
| SSR | Simple sequence repeat |
| MX | Mexico |
| IT | Italy |
| EC | Ecuador |
| EG | Egypt |
| PK | Pakistan |
| CA | Canada |
| g | Number of MLGs |
| N | Number of isolates |
| g/N | Ratio of number of MLGs/number of isolates |
| H | Shannon–Wiener index of genotypic diversity |
| G | Stoddart and Taylor’s genotypic diversity index |
| DAPC | Discriminant Analysis of Principal Components |
| AMOVA | Analysis of molecular variance |
| FST | Fixation index |
| P | Probability value |
| rbarD | Adjusted/standard index of association |
| CTAB | Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| Nm | Number of effective migrants |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |