Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

A recombined Sr26 and Sr61 disease resistance gene stack in wheat encodes unrelated NLR genes

  • Jianping Zhang,
  • Timothy C. Hewitt,
  • Willem H. P. Boshoff,
  • Ian Dundas,
  • Narayana Upadhyaya,
  • Jianbo Li,
  • Mehran Patpour,
  • Sutha Chandramohan,
  • Zacharias A. Pretorius,
  • Mogens Hovmøller,
  • Wendelin Schnippenkoetter,
  • Robert F. Park,
  • Rohit Mago,
  • Sambasivam Periyannan,
  • Dhara Bhatt,
  • Sami Hoxha,
  • Soma Chakraborty,
  • Ming Luo,
  • Peter Dodds,
  • Burkhard Steuernagel,
  • Brande B. H. Wulff,
  • Michael Ayliffe,
  • Robert A. McIntosh,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Evans S. Lagudah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23738-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The tall wheat grass-derived stem rust resistance genes Sr26 and Sr61 are among a few ones that are effective to all current dominant races of stem rust, including Ug99. Here, the authors show that the two genes are present in a small non-recombinogenic segment but encode two unrelated NLR proteins.