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In the present study, we used a combination of morphological observation and multigenes based-molecular phylogenetic analyses to identified a hyperparasite, isolated from Pst urediospores collected from infected wheat leaves, as\n                    <jats:italic>Simplicillium lamellicola<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Smith) Zare &amp;amp; Gams. Further experimental results demonstrated that inoculating\n                    <jats:italic>Pst-<\/jats:italic>\n                    infected wheat leaves with\n                    <jats:italic>S. lamellicola<\/jats:italic>\n                    inhibited the production of\n                    <jats:italic>Pst<\/jats:italic>\n                    urediospores and ultimately caused the death of rust spores. 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