Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Stem rust resistance in wheat is suppressed by a subunit of the mediator complex

  • Colin W. Hiebert,
  • Matthew J. Moscou,
  • Tim Hewitt,
  • Burkhard Steuernagel,
  • Inma Hernández-Pinzón,
  • Phon Green,
  • Vincent Pujol,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Matthew N. Rouse,
  • Yue Jin,
  • Robert A. McIntosh,
  • Narayana Upadhyaya,
  • Jianping Zhang,
  • Sridhar Bhavani,
  • Jan Vrána,
  • Miroslava Karafiátová,
  • Li Huang,
  • Tom Fetch,
  • Jaroslav Doležel,
  • Brande B. H. Wulff,
  • Evans Lagudah,
  • Wolfgang Spielmeyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14937-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Stem rust is an important disease of wheat and resistance present in some cultivars can be suppressed by the SuSr-D1 locus. Here the authors show that SuSr-D1 encodes a subunit of the Mediator Complex and that nonsense mutations are sufficient to abolish suppression and confer stem rust resistance.