Biotechnological resources to increase disease-resistance by improving plant immunity: A sustainable approach to save cereal crop production

V Bigini, F Camerlengo, E Botticella, F Sestili… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant diseases are globally causing substantial losses in staple crop production,
undermining the urgent goal of a 60% increase needed to meet the food demand, a task …

Meta-QTLs for multiple disease resistance involving three rusts in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

N Pal, I Jan, DK Saini, K Kumar, A Kumar… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Key message In wheat, multiple disease resistance meta-QTLs (MDR-MQTLs) and
underlying candidate genes for the three rusts were identified which may prove useful for …

Discovery of resistance genes in rye by targeted long-read sequencing and association genetics

NM Vendelbo, K Mahmood, B Steuernagel, BBH Wulff… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The majority of released rye cultivars are susceptible to leaf rust because of a low level of
resistance in the predominant hybrid rye-breeding gene pools Petkus and Carsten. To …

The Wheat Lr67 Gene from the Sugar Transport Protein 13 Family Confers Multipathogen Resistance in Barley

RJ Milne, KE Dibley, W Schnippenkoetter… - Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Fungal pathogens are a major constraint to global crop production; hence, plant genes
encoding pathogen resistance are important tools for combating disease. A few resistance …

Analysis of leaf microbiome composition of near‐isogenic maize lines differing in broad‐spectrum disease resistance

MR Wagner, PE Busby, P Balint‐Kurti - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant genotype strongly affects disease resistance, and also influences the composition of
the leaf microbiome. However, these processes have not been studied and linked in the …

Genes involved in nonhost disease resistance as a key to engineer durable resistance in crops

JP Fonseca, KS Mysore - Plant Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Most potential pathogens fail to establish virulence for a plethora of plants found in nature.
This intrinsic property to resist pathogen virulence displayed by organisms without triggering …

The wheat Lr34 multipathogen resistance gene confers resistance to anthracnose and rust in sorghum

W Schnippenkoetter, C Lo, G Liu… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of the wheat Lr34 multipathogen resistance gene (Lr34res) to function across a
wide taxonomic boundary was investigated in transgenic Sorghum bicolor. Increased …

Discovery of a Novel Leaf Rust (Puccinia recondita) Resistance Gene in Rye (Secale cereale L.) Using Association Genomics

NM Vendelbo, K Mahmood, P Sarup, MS Hovmøller… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Leaf rust constitutes one of the most important foliar diseases in rye (Secale cereale L.). To
discover new sources of resistance, we phenotyped 180 lines belonging to a less well …

Quantitative disease resistance: multifaceted players in plant defense

M Gou, P Balint‐Kurti, M Xu… - Journal of integrative plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In contrast to large‐effect qualitative disease resistance, quantitative disease resistance
(QDR) exhibits partial and generally durable resistance and has been extensively utilized in …

Genetic dissection of maize disease resistance and its applications in molecular breeding

M Zhu, L Tong, M Xu, T Zhong - Molecular Breeding, 2021 - Springer
Disease resistance is essential for reliable maize production. In a long-term tug-of-war
between maize and its pathogenic microbes, naturally occurring resistance genes gradually …