Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

A giant NLR gene confers broad-spectrum resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean

  • Weidong Wang,
  • Liyang Chen,
  • Kevin Fengler,
  • Joy Bolar,
  • Victor Llaca,
  • Xutong Wang,
  • Chancelor B. Clark,
  • Tomara J. Fleury,
  • Jon Myrvold,
  • David Oneal,
  • Maria Magdalena van Dyk,
  • Ashley Hudson,
  • Jesse Munkvold,
  • Andy Baumgarten,
  • Jeff Thompson,
  • Guohong Cai,
  • Oswald Crasta,
  • Rajat Aggarwal,
  • Jianxin Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26554-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While multiple resistance-to-Phytophthora sojae loci/alleles have been mapped in soybean, many of them have become ineffective to newly evolved isolates. Here, the authors show that a 27.7-kb nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat gene confers broad-spectrum resistance to P. sojae in soybean.