Resistance that stacks up: engineering rust and mildew disease control in the cereal crops wheat and barley

PM Dracatos, J Lu, J Sánchez‐Martín… - Plant biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Staying ahead of the arms race against rust and mildew diseases in cereal crops is essential
to maintain and preserve food security. The methodological challenges associated with …

Show me your ID: NLR immune receptors with integrated domains in plants

C Marchal, VA Michalopoulou, Z Zou… - Essays in …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are intracellular plant immune
receptors that recognize pathogen effectors secreted into the plant cell. Canonical NLRs …

Sequencing trait-associated mutations to clone wheat rust-resistance gene YrNAM

F Ni, Y Zheng, X Liu, Y Yu, G Zhang, L Epstein… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stripe (yellow) rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), can significantly affect
wheat production. Cloning resistance genes is critical for efficient and effective breeding of …

Barley with improved drought tolerance: Challenges and perspectives

A Elakhdar, S Solanki, T Kubo, A Abed… - Environmental and …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a pressing need to improve climate-resilient crops as a consequence of
increasingly erratic climatic behavior that threatens global food security. Current scientific …

Capturing wheat phenotypes at the genome level

B Hussain, BA Akpınar, M Alaux, AM Algharib… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent technological advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have
dramatically reduced the cost of DNA sequencing, allowing species with large and complex …

Unmasking the invaders: NLR-mal function in plant defense

S Anbu, V Swart, N van den Berg - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plants possess an arsenal of immune receptors to allow for numerous tiers of defense
against pathogen attack. These immune receptors can be located either in the …

A high-quality pseudo-phased genome for Melaleuca quinquenervia shows allelic diversity of NLR-type resistance genes

SH Chen, AM Martino, Z Luo, B Schwessinger… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Melaleuca quinquenervia (broad-leaved paperbark) is a coastal wetland tree
species that serves as a foundation species in eastern Australia, Indonesia, Papua New …

Breeding oat for resistance to the crown rust pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: achievements and prospects

RF Park, WHP Boshoff, AL Cabral, J Chong… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca), is a significant impediment to
global oat production. Some 98 alleles at 92 loci conferring resistance to Pca in Avena have …

A pathogen-induced putative NAC transcription factor mediates leaf rust resistance in barley

C Chen, M Jost, MA Outram, D Friendship… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia hordei, is one of the most widespread and damaging foliar
diseases affecting barley. The barley leaf rust resistance locus Rph7 has been shown to …

Genome-Wide Analysis of NLR Disease Resistance Genes in an Updated Reference Genome of Barley

Q Li, XM Jiang, ZQ Shao - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Barley is one of the top 10 crop plants in the world. During its whole lifespan, barley is
frequently infected by various pathogens. In this study, we performed genome-wide analysis …