Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

J Bailey-Serres, JE Parker, EA Ainsworth, GED Oldroyd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world's population by 2050.
Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of …

Plant NLR diversity: the known unknowns of pan-NLRomes

AC Barragan, D Weigel - The Plant Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plants and pathogens constantly adapt to each other. As a consequence, many members of
the plant immune system, and especially the intracellular nucleotide-binding site leucine …

De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

MB Hufford, AS Seetharam, MR Woodhouse… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for
the 26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping …

[HTML][HTML] A species-wide inventory of NLR genes and alleles in Arabidopsis thaliana

AL Van de Weyer, F Monteiro, OJ Furzer, MT Nishimura… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Infectious disease is both a major force of selection in nature and a prime cause of yield loss
in agriculture. In plants, disease resistance is often conferred by nucleotide-binding leucine …

NLR receptors in plant immunity: making sense of the alphabet soup

MP Contreras, D Lüdke, H Pai, AA Toghani… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Plants coordinately use cell‐surface and intracellular immune receptors to perceive
pathogens and mount an immune response. Intracellular events of pathogen recognition are …

Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors

S Cesari - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 17 I. Introduction 17 II. Pathogen perception by NLRs: from direct
recognition to integrated decoys 18 III. Multiple activation and signaling pathways for NLRs …

BED-domain-containing immune receptors confer diverse resistance spectra to yellow rust

C Marchal, J Zhang, P Zhang, P Fenwick… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Crop diseases reduce wheat yields by~ 25% globally and thus pose a major threat to global
food security. Genetic resistance can reduce crop losses in the field and can be selected …

The NLR-annotator tool enables annotation of the intracellular immune receptor repertoire

B Steuernagel, K Witek, SG Krattinger… - Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Disease resistance genes encoding nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR)
intracellular immune receptor proteins detect pathogens by the presence of pathogen …

A molecular roadmap to the plant immune system

AR Bentham, JC De la Concepcion, N Mukhi… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Plant diseases caused by pathogens and pests are a constant threat to global food security.
Direct crop losses and the measures used to control disease (eg application of pesticides) …

RefPlantNLR is a comprehensive collection of experimentally validated plant disease resistance proteins from the NLR family

J Kourelis, T Sakai, H Adachi, S Kamoun - PLoS Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Reference datasets are critical in computational biology. They help define canonical
biological features and are essential for benchmarking studies. Here, we describe a …