Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

A rare gain of function mutation in a wheat tandem kinase confers resistance to powdery mildew

  • Ping Lu,
  • Li Guo,
  • Zhenzhong Wang,
  • Beibei Li,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yahui Li,
  • Dan Qiu,
  • Wenqi Shi,
  • Lijun Yang,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Guanghao Guo,
  • Jingzhong Xie,
  • Qiuhong Wu,
  • Yongxing Chen,
  • Miaomiao Li,
  • Huaizhi Zhang,
  • Lingli Dong,
  • Panpan Zhang,
  • Keyu Zhu,
  • Dazhao Yu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Karin R. Deal,
  • Naxin Huo,
  • Cuimin Liu,
  • Ming-Cheng Luo,
  • Jan Dvorak,
  • Yong Qiang Gu,
  • Hongjie Li,
  • Zhiyong Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14294-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Powdery mildew is a major threat to world wheat yields. Here the authors describe the map-based cloning of Pm24, a gain-of-function powdery mildew resistance allele that encodes a tandem kinase-pseudokinase protein with a deletion in a kinase domain that is endemic to certain wheat landraces.