Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Aegilops sharonensis genome-assisted identification of stem rust resistance gene Sr62

  • Guotai Yu,
  • Oadi Matny,
  • Nicolas Champouret,
  • Burkhard Steuernagel,
  • Matthew J. Moscou,
  • Inmaculada Hernández-Pinzón,
  • Phon Green,
  • Sadiye Hayta,
  • Mark Smedley,
  • Wendy Harwood,
  • Ngonidzashe Kangara,
  • Yajuan Yue,
  • Catherine Gardener,
  • Mark J. Banfield,
  • Pablo D. Olivera,
  • Cole Welchin,
  • Jamie Simmons,
  • Eitan Millet,
  • Anna Minz-Dub,
  • Moshe Ronen,
  • Raz Avni,
  • Amir Sharon,
  • Mehran Patpour,
  • Annemarie F. Justesen,
  • Murukarthick Jayakodi,
  • Axel Himmelbach,
  • Nils Stein,
  • Shuangye Wu,
  • Jesse Poland,
  • Jennifer Ens,
  • Curtis Pozniak,
  • Miroslava Karafiátová,
  • István Molnár,
  • Jaroslav Doležel,
  • Eric R. Ward,
  • T. Lynne Reuber,
  • Jonathan D. G. Jones,
  • Martin Mascher,
  • Brian J. Steffenson,
  • Brande B. H. Wulff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29132-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Aegilops sharonensis is a wild diploid relative of wheat. Here, the authors assemble the genome of Ae. sharonensis and use the assembly as an aid to clone the Ae. sharonensis-derived stem rust resistance gene Sr62 in the allohexaploid genome of wheat.