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 …

NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae

J Sánchez-Martín, B Keller - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent progress in large-scale sequencing, genomics, and rapid gene isolation techniques
has accelerated the identification of race-specific resistance (R) genes and their …

Aegilops sharonensis genome-assisted identification of stem rust resistance gene Sr62

G Yu, O Matny, N Champouret, B Steuernagel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The wild relatives and progenitors of wheat have been widely used as sources of disease
resistance (R) genes. Molecular identification and characterization of these R genes …

A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria …

T Hewitt, MC Müller, I Molnár, M Mascher… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pm1a, the first powdery mildew resistance gene described in wheat, is part of a complex
resistance (R) gene cluster located in a distal region of chromosome 7AL that has …

Next generation sequencing based forward genetic approaches for identification and mapping of causal mutations in crop plants: A comprehensive review

PK Sahu, R Sao, S Mondal, G Vishwakarma, SK Gupta… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The recent advancements in forward genetics have expanded the applications of mutation
techniques in advanced genetics and genomics, ahead of direct use in breeding programs …

A kinase fusion protein from Aegilops longissima confers resistance to wheat powdery mildew

H He, Z Chen, R Fan, J Zhang, S Zhu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Many disease resistance genes have been introgressed into wheat from its wild relatives.
However, reduced recombination within the introgressed segments hinders the cloning of …

The barley leaf rust resistance gene Rph3 encodes a predicted membrane protein and is induced upon infection by avirulent pathotypes of Puccinia hordei

HX Dinh, D Singh, D Gomez de la Cruz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia hordei, is an economically significant disease of barley, but
only a few major resistance genes to P. hordei (Rph) have been cloned. In this study, gene …

Molecular genetics of leaf rust resistance in wheat and barley

HX Dinh, D Singh, S Periyannan, RF Park… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
The demand for cereal grains as a main source of energy continues to increase due to the
rapid increase in world population. The leaf rust diseases of cereals cause significant yield …

Wheat powdery mildew resistance gene Pm13 encodes a mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein

H Li, W Men, C Ma, Q Liu, Z Dong, X Tian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wheat powdery mildew is one of the most destructive diseases threatening global wheat
production. The wild relatives of wheat constitute rich sources of diversity for powdery …

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 …