Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

An ancestral NB-LRR with duplicated 3′UTRs confers stripe rust resistance in wheat and barley

  • Chaozhong Zhang,
  • Lin Huang,
  • Huifei Zhang,
  • Qunqun Hao,
  • Bo Lyu,
  • Meinan Wang,
  • Lynn Epstein,
  • Miao Liu,
  • Chunlan Kou,
  • Juan Qi,
  • Fengjuan Chen,
  • Mengkai Li,
  • Ge Gao,
  • Fei Ni,
  • Lianquan Zhang,
  • Ming Hao,
  • Jirui Wang,
  • Xianming Chen,
  • Ming-Cheng Luo,
  • Youliang Zheng,
  • Jiajie Wu,
  • Dengcai Liu,
  • Daolin Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11872-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Stripe rust is a serious threat to wheat production. Here, the authors reveal that the resistance gene, only present in the wheat progenitor Aegilops tauschii and its derived synthetic wheat, encodes a nucleotide oligomerization domain-like receptor and confers resistance in common wheat and barley.