Plants have many, highly variable resistance (R) gene loci, which provide resistance to a
variety of pathogens. The first R gene to be cloned, maize (Zea mays) Hm1, was published …

Plant diseases reduce crop yields and threaten global food security, making the selection of
disease-resistant cultivars a major goal of crop breeding. Broad-spectrum resistance (BSR) …

Rice feeds half the world's population, and rice blast is often a destructive disease that
results in significant crop loss. Non-race-specific resistance has been more effective in …

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera), one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world,
suffers significant yield losses from powdery mildew, a major fungal disease caused by …

Loss-of-function mutations of one or more of the appropriate Mildew resistance locus o (Mlo)
genes are an apparently reliable “weapon” to protect plants from infection by powdery …

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 …

While the chemical nature of reactive oxygen species (ROS) dictates that they are potentially
harmful to cells, recent genetic evidence suggests that in planta purely physicochemical …

Plants growing in their natural habitats are often challenged simultaneously by multiple
stress factors, both abiotic and biotic. Research has so far been limited to responses to …

Crops carrying broad-spectrum resistance loci provide an effective strategy for controlling
infectious disease because these loci typically confer resistance to diverse races of a …

Wheat is one of the most widely grown cereal crops in the world and is an important food
grain source for humans. However, wheat yields can be reduced by many abiotic and biotic …