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Makhtoum S, Sabouri H, Gholizadeh A, Ahangar L, Katouzi M, Mastinu A. Genomics and Physiology of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameters in Hordeum vulgare L. under Drought and Salt Stresses. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:3515. [PMID: 37836255 PMCID: PMC10575077 DOI: 10.3390/plants12193515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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To map the genomic regions and control chlorophyll fluorescence attributes under normal, salinity-, and drought-stress conditions in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) at the seedling stage, an experiment was conducted in 2019-2020 using 106 F8 lines resulting from the cross between Badia × Kavir. Initially, the different chlorophyll fluorescence parameters were evaluated. Under drought stress, the highest decrease was related to REo/CSm (59.56%), and the highest increase was related to dV/dto (77.17%). Also, under salinity stress, the highest decrease was related to Fv/Fo (59.56%), and the highest increase was related to DIo/RC (77.17%). Linkage maps were prepared using 152 SSR polymorphic markers, 72 ISSR alleles, 7 IRAP alleles, 29 CAAT alleles, 27 Scot alleles, and 15 iPBS alleles. The obtained map accounted for 999.2 centi-Morgans (cM) of the barley genome length (92% of the whole barley genome). The results indicated the importance of chromosomes 3, 2, and 7 in controlling ABS/CSm, Area, ETo/CSm, Fm, Fv, and ETo/RC under drought stress. qEToRCD-7, as a major QTL, controlled 18.3% of ETo/RC phenotypic variation under drought stress. Under salinity stress, the regions of chromosomes 2 and 7 (102 cM and 126 cM) controlled the parameters ABS/CSo, Fm, Fo, Fv, TRo/SCo, Area, ETo/CSm, and ETo/CSo. The results showed that chlorophyll fluorescence is an important parameter in the study of drought and salinity effects on barley. This is the first report of the investigation of changes in the genetic structure of quantitative genes controlling the fluorescence parameters associated with barley response to drought and salinity stresses in the Iranian barley RILs population. According to the obtained results, it is possible to use HVPLASC1B and EBmac0713 in normal conditions, ISSR21-2 and ISSR30-4 in drought conditions, and Bmac0047, Scot5-B, CAAT6-C, and ISSR30iPBS2076-4 in saline stress conditions to select genotypes with higher photosynthetic capacity in marker-assisted selection programs.
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- Somayyeh Makhtoum
- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, P.O. Box 163, Gonbad 49717-99151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, P.O. Box 163, Gonbad 49717-99151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, P.O. Box 163, Gonbad 49717-99151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, P.O. Box 163, Gonbad 49717-99151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resource, Agroscope, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland;
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Division of Pharmacology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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Makhtoum S, Sabouri H, Gholizadeh A, Ahangar L, Katouzi M. QTLs Controlling Physiological and Morphological Traits of Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings under Salinity, Drought, and Normal Conditions. BIOTECH 2022; 11:biotech11030026. [PMID: 35892931 PMCID: PMC9326576 DOI: 10.3390/biotech11030026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To identify the genomic regions for the physiological and morphological traits of barley genotypes under normal salinity and drought, a set of 103 recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations, developed between Badia and Kavir crosses, was evaluated under phytotron conditions in a completely randomized design in 2019. Linkage maps were prepared using 152 SSR markers, 72 ISSR, 7 IRAP, 29 CAAT, 27 SCoT, and 15 iPBS alleles. The markers were assigned to seven barley chromosomes and covered 999.29 centimorgans (cM) of the barley genome. In addition, composite interval mapping showed 8, 9, and 26 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) under normal, drought, and salinity stress conditions, respectively. Our results indicate the importance of chromosomes 1, 4, 5, and 7 in salinity stress. These regions were involved in genes controlling stomata length (LR), leaf number (LN), leaf weight (LW), and genetic score (SCR). Three major stable pleiotropic QTLs (i.e., qSCS-1, qRLS-1, and qLNN-1) were associated with SCR, root length (RL), and root number (RN) in both treatments (i.e., normal and salinity), and two major stable pleiotropic QTLs (i.e., qSNN-3 and qLWS-3) associated with the stomata number (SN) and LW appeared to be promising for marker-assisted selection (MAS). Two major-effect QTLs (i.e., SCot8-B-CAAT5-D and HVM54-Bmag0571) on chromosomes 1 and 2 were characterized for their positive allele effect, which can be used to develop barley varieties concerning drought conditions. The new alleles (i.e., qLWS-4a, qSLS-4, qLNS-7b, qSCS-7, and qLNS-7a) identified in this study are useful in pyramiding elite alleles for molecular breeding and marker assisted selection for improving salinity tolerance in barley.
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- Somayyeh Makhtoum
- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
- Correspondence: or (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-91-1143-8917 (H.S.); +41-77-9660486 (M.K.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Crop Génome Dynamics Group, Agroscope Changins, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland
- Correspondence: or (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-91-1143-8917 (H.S.); +41-77-9660486 (M.K.)
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Jin J, Shew HD. Impacts of Continued Exposure to a Susceptible Host Genotype on Aggressiveness of Phytophthora nicotianae Isolates Adapted to Multiple Sources of Partial Resistance. PLANT DISEASE 2022; 106:373-381. [PMID: 34282925 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-09-20-1972-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Pathogen adaptation can threaten the durability of partial resistance. Mixed plantings of susceptible and partially resistant varieties may prolong the effectiveness of partial resistance, but little is known about how continued exposure to a susceptible genotype can change the aggressiveness of pathogen isolates adapted to a source of partial resistance. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of continued exposure to a highly susceptible tobacco genotype on isolates of Phytophthora nicotianae that had been adapted to partial resistance. Isolates of P. nicotianae previously adapted to two sources of partial resistance were continually exposed to either the original host of adaptation or a susceptible host. After six generations of host exposure, isolates obtained from the partially resistant and the susceptible hosts were compared for their aggressiveness on the resistant host and for differences in expression of genes associated with pathogenicity and aggressiveness. Results suggested that exposure to the susceptible tobacco genotype reduced aggressiveness of isolates adapted to partial resistance in K 326 Wz/- but not of isolates adapted to partial resistance in Fla 301. Quantification of pathogenicity-associated gene expression using qRT-PCR suggested the rapid change in aggressiveness of isolates adapted to Wz-sourced partial resistance may have resulted from modification in gene expression in multiple genes.
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- Jing Jin
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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Yashchuk N, Matseiko L, Bober A, Kobernyk M, Gunko S, Grevtseva N, Boyko Y, Salavor O, Bublienko N, Babych I. The technological properties of winter wheat grain during long-term storage. POTRAVINARSTVO 2021. [DOI: 10.5219/1642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In the world, the demand for quality and safe grain products is increasing. The need to preserve wheat in the event of a natural disaster requires the study of optimal storage times of grain without degrading technological indexes. The purpose of the work was to study the dynamics of technological properties of winter wheat grown after peas, clover, corn for silage and the industrial, ecological, biological growing systems during 1, 3, and 5 years of storage in the conditions of the ordinary granary. The absence of significant differences in the technological parameters of the grain of wheat grown at industrial and ecological systems, but significantly lower indicators at a biological growing system was found. The highest hectolitre weight obtained when wheat grain was grown after corn for silage, and vitreousness – after the clover. Significantly higher biochemical parameters of grain and alveographic properties of flour were for the cultivation of wheat after peas, which provided additional accumulation of protein substances. There are no significant changes in the indicator of hectolitre weight during the grain storage. Other indicators increased significantly after 1 year of storage (on average by 10 – 30%). For further storage, vitreousness growth was insignificant. After 5 years of storage, the falling number significantly increased (on 21% compared to the initial values and on 7% – after 3 years of storage). The content of protein, gluten in the grain, and alveographic properties of flour significantly decreased after 5 years of storage. The possibility of obtaining grain of wheat with high technological parameters for a more safe ecological growing system was established. It was also confirmed to need for grain storage up to 1 year to improve quality indicators and it was established that it safely stored for 3 years.
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Haghdoust R, Singh D, Park RF, Dracatos PM. Characterizing the Genetic Architecture of Nonhost Resistance in Barley Using Pathogenically Diverse Puccinia Isolates. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:684-694. [PMID: 32931394 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-05-20-0193-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Barley is an intermediate or near nonhost to many cereal rust pathogens that infect grasses, making it a highly suitable model to understand the evolution and genetic basis of nonhost resistance (NHR) in plants. To characterize the genetic architecture of NHR in barley, we used the Oregon Wolfe Barley doubled haploid and Morex × SusPtrit recombinant inbred line mapping populations. To elicit a wide array of NHR responses, we tested 492 barley accessions and both mapping populations with pathogenically diverse cereal rust isolates representing distinct formae speciales adapted to Avena, Hordeum, Triticum, and Lolium spp.: P. coronata f. sp. avenae (oat crown rust pathogen) and P. coronata f. sp. lolii (ryegrass crown rust pathogen), P. graminis f. sp. avenae (oat stem rust pathogen) and P. graminis f. sp. lolii (the ryegrass stem rust pathogen), and P. striiformis f. sp. tritici (wheat stripe rust pathogen) and P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei (barley grass stripe rust pathogen). With the exception of P. coronata f. sp. lolii and P. coronata f. sp. avenae, susceptibility and segregation for NHR was observed in the barley accessions and both mapping populations. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for NHR were mapped on all seven chromosomes. NHR in barley to the heterologous rusts tested was attributable to a combination of QTLs with either or both overlapping and distinct specificities. Across both mapping populations, broadly effective NHR loci were also identified that likely play a role in host specialization.
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- R Haghdoust
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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Kovalyshyna H, Dmytrenko Y, Tonkha O, Makarchuk O, Demydov O, Humenyuk O, Kozub N, Karelov A, Sozinov I, Mushtruk M. Diversity of winter common wheat varieties for resistance to leaf rust created in the V. M. Remeslo myronivka institute of wheat. POTRAVINARSTVO 2020. [DOI: 10.5219/1447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The results of the investigations of resistance winter common wheat varieties to leaf rust are given. The high resistance to the pathogen manifest varieties that contain resistance genes: Lr9, Lr19, Lr37, Lr42 + Lr24, Lr43 (Lr21 + Lr39) + Lr24, Lr9 + Lr26, Lr10 + Lr24 are ascertained. The genes Lr13, Lr34, Lr37 in combination with other resistance genes provides long-term protection to leaf rust wheat. Winter wheat varieties, created at the V. M. Remeslo Myronivka Institute of Wheat, contain resistance genes Lr23, Lr24, Lr26, Lr34. The varieties Vesta, Snizhana, Demetra are protected by the resistance genes Lr26 + Lr34, variety Zolotokolosa– Lr24 + Lr34, Ekonomka – Lr3 + Lr26, Myronivska storichna – Lr3 + Lr23 + Lr10 + Lr26. The allele Lr34 (+) is contained in varieties: Kryzhynka, Vesta, Snizhana, Volodarka, Demetra, Vdiachna, Pamiati Remesla, Sviatkova, Podolianka, Berehynia myronivska, MIP Dniprianka, and Balada myronivska. Sustainability is an important element of an integrated system of plant protection against many diseases, and to ensure increased yields it is necessary to create and distribute sustainable varieties that will be an environmentally promising way to develop the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine.
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Ayliffe M, Sørensen CK. Plant nonhost resistance: paradigms and new environments. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 50:104-113. [PMID: 31075541 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Nonhost resistance (NHR) protects plants from a large and diverse array of potential phytopathogens. Each phytopathogen can parasitise some plant species, but most plant species are nonhosts that are innately immune due to a series of physical, chemical and inducible defenses these nonadapted pathogens cannot overcome. New evidence supports the NHR paradigm that posits the inability of potential pathogens to colonise nonhost plants is frequently due to molecular incompatibility between pathogen virulence factors and plant cellular targets. While NHR is durable, it is not insurmountable. Environmental changes can facilitate pathogen host jumps or alternatively result in new encounters between previously isolated plant species and pathogens. Climate change is predicted to substantially alter the current distribution of plants and their pathogens which could result in parasitism of new plant species.
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- Michael Ayliffe
- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Box 1700, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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Bartaula R, Melo ATO, Kingan S, Jin Y, Hale I. Mapping non-host resistance to the stem rust pathogen in an interspecific barberry hybrid. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:319. [PMID: 31311507 PMCID: PMC6636152 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1893-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Non-host resistance (NHR) presents a compelling long-term plant protection strategy for global food security, yet the genetic basis of NHR remains poorly understood. For many diseases, including stem rust of wheat [causal organism Puccinia graminis (Pg)], NHR is largely unexplored due to the inherent challenge of developing a genetically tractable system within which the resistance segregates. The present study turns to the pathogen's alternate host, barberry (Berberis spp.), to overcome this challenge. RESULTS In this study, an interspecific mapping population derived from a cross between Pg-resistant Berberis thunbergii (Bt) and Pg-susceptible B. vulgaris was developed to investigate the Pg-NHR exhibited by Bt. To facilitate QTL analysis and subsequent trait dissection, the first genetic linkage maps for the two parental species were constructed and a chromosome-scale reference genome for Bt was assembled (PacBio + Hi-C). QTL analysis resulted in the identification of a single 13 cM region (~ 5.1 Mbp spanning 13 physical contigs) on the short arm of Bt chromosome 3. Differential gene expression analysis, combined with sequence variation analysis between the two parental species, led to the prioritization of several candidate genes within the QTL region, some of which belong to gene families previously implicated in disease resistance. CONCLUSIONS Foundational genetic and genomic resources developed for Berberis spp. enabled the identification and annotation of a QTL associated with Pg-NHR. Although subsequent validation and fine mapping studies are needed, this study demonstrates the feasibility of and lays the groundwork for dissecting Pg-NHR in the alternate host of one of agriculture's most devastating pathogens.
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- Radhika Bartaula
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108 USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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Della Coletta R, Hirsch CN, Rouse MN, Lorenz A, Garvin DF. Genomic Dissection of Nonhost Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust in Brachypodium distachyon. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2019; 32:392-400. [PMID: 30261155 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-18-0220-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The emergence of new races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, the causal pathogen of wheat stem rust, has spurred interest in developing durable resistance to this disease in wheat. Nonhost resistance holds promise to help control this and other diseases because it is durable against nonadapted pathogens. However, the genetic and molecular basis of nonhost resistance to wheat stem rust is poorly understood. In this study, the model grass Brachypodium distachyon, a nonhost of P. graminis f. sp. tritici, was used to genetically dissect nonhost resistance to wheat stem rust. A recombinant inbred line (RIL) population segregating for response to wheat stem rust was evaluated for resistance. Evaluation of genome-wide cumulative single nucleotide polymorphism allele frequency differences between contrasting pools of resistant and susceptible RILs followed by molecular marker analysis identified six quantitative trait loci (QTL) that cumulatively explained 72.5% of the variation in stem rust resistance. Two of the QTLs explained 31.7% of the variation, and their interaction explained another 4.6%. Thus, nonhost resistance to wheat stem rust in B. distachyon is genetically complex, with both major and minor QTLs acting additively and, in some cases, interacting. These findings will guide future research to identify genes essential to nonhost resistance to wheat stem rust.
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- Rafael Della Coletta
- 1 Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
- 2 CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- 1 Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
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- 3 USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
- 4 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota; and
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- 1 Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
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- 1 Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
- 5 USDA-ARS Plant Science Research Unit, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
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Gilbert B, Bettgenhaeuser J, Upadhyaya N, Soliveres M, Singh D, Park RF, Moscou MJ, Ayliffe M. Components of Brachypodium distachyon resistance to nonadapted wheat stripe rust pathogens are simply inherited. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007636. [PMID: 30265668 PMCID: PMC6161853 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Phytopathogens have a limited range of host plant species that they can successfully parasitise ie. that they are adapted for. Infection of plants by nonadapted pathogens often results in an active resistance response that is relatively poorly characterised because phenotypic variation in this response often does not exist within a plant species, or is too subtle for genetic dissection. In addition, complex polygenic inheritance often underlies these resistance phenotypes and mutagenesis often does not impact upon this resistance, presumably due to genetic or mechanistic redundancy. Here it is demonstrated that phenotypic differences in the resistance response of Brachypodium distachyon to the nonadapted wheat stripe rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) are genetically tractable and simply inherited. Two dominant loci were identified on B. distachyon chromosome 4 that each reduce attempted Pst colonisation compared with sib and parent lines without these loci. One locus (Yrr1) is effective against diverse Australian Pst isolates and present in two B. distachyon mapping families as a conserved region that was reduced to 5 candidate genes by fine mapping. A second locus, Yrr2, shows Pst race-specificity and encodes a disease resistance gene family typically associated with host plant resistance. These data indicate that some components of resistance to nonadapted pathogens are genetically tractable in some instances and may mechanistically overlap with host plant resistance to avirulent adapted pathogens.
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- Brian Gilbert
- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Drive, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Drive, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Drive, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
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- University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
- University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Drive, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Bettgenhaeuser J, Gardiner M, Spanner R, Green P, Hernández-Pinzón I, Hubbard A, Ayliffe M, Moscou MJ. The genetic architecture of colonization resistance in Brachypodium distachyon to non-adapted stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) isolates. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007637. [PMID: 30265666 PMCID: PMC6161849 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Multilayered defense responses ensure that plants are hosts to only a few adapted pathogens in the environment. The host range of a plant pathogen depends on its ability to fully overcome plant defense barriers, with failure at any single step sufficient to prevent life cycle completion of the pathogen. Puccinia striiformis, the causal agent of stripe rust (=yellow rust), is an agronomically important obligate biotrophic fungal pathogen of wheat and barley. It is generally unable to complete its life cycle on the non-adapted wild grass species Brachypodium distachyon, but natural variation exists for the degree of hyphal colonization by Puccinia striiformis. Using three B. distachyon mapping populations, we identified genetic loci conferring colonization resistance to wheat-adapted and barley-adapted isolates of P. striiformis. We observed a genetic architecture composed of two major effect QTLs (Yrr1 and Yrr3) restricting the colonization of P. striiformis. Isolate specificity was observed for Yrr1, whereas Yrr3 was effective against all tested P. striiformis isolates. Plant immune receptors of the nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) encoding gene family are present at the Yrr3 locus, whereas genes of this family were not identified at the Yrr1 locus. While it has been proposed that resistance to adapted and non-adapted pathogens are inherently different, the observation of (1) a simple genetic architecture of colonization resistance, (2) isolate specificity of major and minor effect QTLs, and (3) NB-LRR encoding genes at the Yrr3 locus suggest that factors associated with resistance to adapted pathogens are also critical for non-adapted pathogens.
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Romero CCT, Vermeulen JP, Vels A, Himmelbach A, Mascher M, Niks RE. Mapping resistance to powdery mildew in barley reveals a large-effect nonhost resistance QTL. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018; 131:1031-1045. [PMID: 29372282 PMCID: PMC5895680 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3055-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Resistance factors against non-adapted powdery mildews were mapped in barley. Some QTLs seem effective only to non-adapted mildews, while others also play a role in defense against the adapted form. The durability and effectiveness of nonhost resistance suggests promising practical applications for crop breeding, relying upon elucidation of key aspects of this type of resistance. We investigated which genetic factors determine the nonhost status of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) to powdery mildews (Blumeria graminis). We set out to verify whether genes involved in nonhost resistance have a wide effectiveness spectrum, and whether nonhost resistance genes confer resistance to the barley adapted powdery mildew. Two barley lines, SusBgtSC and SusBgtDC, with some susceptibility to the wheat powdery mildew B. graminis f.sp. tritici (Bgt) were crossed with cv Vada to generate two mapping populations. Each population was assessed for level of infection against four B. graminis ff.spp, and QTL mapping analyses were performed. Our results demonstrate polygenic inheritance for nonhost resistance, with some QTLs effective only to non-adapted mildews, while others play a role against adapted and non-adapted forms. Histology analyses of nonhost interaction show that most penetration attempts are stopped in association with papillae, and also suggest independent layers of defence at haustorium establishment and conidiophore formation. Nonhost resistance of barley to powdery mildew relies mostly on non-hypersensitive mechanisms. A large-effect nonhost resistance QTL mapped to a 1.4 cM interval is suitable for map-based cloning.
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- Cynara C T Romero
- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, 06466, Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, 06466, Seeland, Germany
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Haghdoust R, Singh D, Garnica DP, Park RF, Dracatos PM. Isolate Specificity and Polygenic Inheritance of Resistance in Barley to Diverse Heterologous Puccinia striiformis Isolates. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2018; 108:617-626. [PMID: 29271300 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-10-17-0345-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Barley is a host to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei, and is an intermediate or near nonhost to the formae speciales adapted to wheat (P. striiformis f. sp. tritici) and to barley grass (P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei). The genetic basis of resistance to these forms of P. striiformis is not well understood. Accordingly, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was developed using a P. striiformis-susceptible accession (Biosaline-19) and the immune cultivar Pompadour. We investigated the genetic basis of resistance to four diverse P. striiformis isolates (P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei, and P. striiformis f. sp. tritici pathotypes 104 E137 A-, 134 E16 A+, and 64 E0 A-). and determined that the immunity in Pompadour at the seedling stage to the different P. striiformis isolates was due to quantitative trait loci (QTL) on chromosomes 1H, 3H, 5H, and 7H with both overlapping and distinct specificities. Further histological analysis confirmed the presence of isolate specificity. The RILs were also assessed in the field for resistance to P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei, P. striiformis f. sp. hordei, and the leaf rust pathogen (P. hordei) to identify pleiotropic QTL loci effective at the adult plant stage and determine whether the leaf rust resistance in Pompadour (Rph20) was also effective to P. striiformis. RILs that were seedling susceptible to P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei were resistant in the field, implicating the involvement of adult plant resistance (APR). Additional QTLs were identified on chromosome 7H at the same genetic position as Rph23 (APR to leaf rust), suggesting either pleiotropic resistance or the presence of a stripe rust resistance gene closely linked to or allelic with Rph23. Unlike many pleiotropic APR genes identified and isolated in wheat, our data suggest that the Rph20 locus does not confer resistance to the P. striiformis isolates used in this study (P. striiformis f. sp. hordei [χ2 (independence) = 2.47 P > 0.12] and P. striiformis f. sp. pseudo-hordei [χ2 (independence) = 0.42 P > 0.60]).
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- R Haghdoust
- First, second, fourth, and fifth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; and second author: CSIRO Plant Industries, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- First, second, fourth, and fifth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; and second author: CSIRO Plant Industries, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- First, second, fourth, and fifth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; and second author: CSIRO Plant Industries, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- First, second, fourth, and fifth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; and second author: CSIRO Plant Industries, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- First, second, fourth, and fifth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; and second author: CSIRO Plant Industries, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Dracatos PM, Haghdoust R, Singh D, Park RF. Exploring and exploiting the boundaries of host specificity using the cereal rust and mildew models. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 218:453-462. [PMID: 29464724 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Individual plants encounter a vast number of microbes including bacteria, viruses, fungi and oomycetes through their growth cycle, yet few of these pathogens are able to infect them. Plant species have diverged over millions of years, co-evolving with few specific pathogens. The host boundaries of most pathogen species can be clearly defined. In general, the greater the genetic divergence from the preferred host, the less likely that pathogen would be able to infect that plant species. Co-evolution and divergence also occur within pathogen species, leading to highly specialized subspecies with narrow host ranges. For example, cereal rust and mildew pathogens (Puccinia and Blumeria spp.) display high host specificity as a result of ongoing co-evolution with a narrow range of grass species. In rare cases, however, some plant species are in a transition from host to nonhost or are intermediate hosts (near nonhost). Barley was reported as a useful model for genetic and molecular studies of nonhost resistance due to rare susceptibility to numerous heterologous rust and mildew fungi. This review evaluates host specificity in numerous Puccinia/Blumeria-cereal pathosystems and discusses various approaches for transferring nonhost resistance (NHR) genes between crop species to reduce the impact of important diseases in food production.
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- Peter Michael Dracatos
- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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Kettles GJ, Bayon C, Canning G, Rudd JJ, Kanyuka K. Apoplastic recognition of multiple candidate effectors from the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici in the nonhost plant Nicotiana benthamiana. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 213:338-350. [PMID: 27696417 PMCID: PMC5132004 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2016] [Accepted: 08/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The fungus Zymoseptoria tritici is a strictly apoplastic, host-specific pathogen of wheat leaves and causal agent of septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease. All other plants are considered nonhosts, but the mechanism of nonhost resistance (NHR) to Z. tritici has not been addressed previously. We sought to develop Nicotiana benthamiana as a system to study NHR against Z. tritici. Fluorescence microscopy and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions were used to establish the interaction between Z. tritici and N. benthamiana. Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression was used to screen putative Z. tritici effector genes for recognition in N. benthamiana, and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) was employed to determine the role of two receptor-like kinases (RLKs), NbBAK1 and NbSOBIR1, in Z. tritici effector recognition. Numerous Z. tritici putative effectors (14 of 63 tested) induced cell death or chlorosis in N. benthamiana. For most, phenotypes were light-dependent and required effector secretion to the leaf apoplastic space. Moreover, effector-induced host cell death was dependent on NbBAK1 and NbSOBIR1. Our results indicate widespread recognition of apoplastic effectors from a wheat-infecting fungal pathogen in a taxonomically distant nonhost plant species presumably by cell surface immune receptors. This suggests that apoplastic recognition of multiple nonadapted pathogen effectors may contribute to NHR.
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- Graeme J. Kettles
- Department of Plant Biology & Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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- Department of Plant Biology & Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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- Department of Plant Biology & Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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- Department of Plant Biology & Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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- Department of Plant Biology & Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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Dracatos PM, Nansamba M, Berlin A, Park RF, Niks RE. Isolate Specificity and Polygenic Inheritance of Resistance in Barley to the Heterologous Rust Pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 106:1029-37. [PMID: 27111801 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-10-15-0264-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Barley is a near-nonhost to numerous heterologous (nonadapted) rust pathogens because a small proportion of genotypes are somewhat susceptible. We assessed 66 barley accessions and three mapping populations (Vada × SusPtrit, Cebada Capa × SusPtrit, and SusPtrit × Golden Promise) for response to three Swedish oat stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae) fungal isolates and determined that barley is a near-nonhost to P. graminis f. sp. avenae and that resistance was polygenically inherited. The parental genotypes Vada and Golden Promise were immune to all three isolates, whereas Cebada Capa was immune to two isolates and moderately resistant to the third. Phenotypic data from the Vada × SusPtrit mapping population and the barley accessions tested also demonstrated isolate-specific resistance. In particular, the SusPtrit parent and several other accessions allowed sporulation by isolate Ingeberga but were resistant to isolate Evertsholm. Nine chromosomal regions carried quantitative trait loci (QTL) (Rpgaq1 to Rpgaq9) of varying effect, most of which colocated to previously identified QTL for resistance to other heterologous rust pathogens. Rpgaq1 on chromosome 1H (Vada and Golden Promise) was effective toward all isolates tested. Microscopic examination indicated that resistance was prehaustorial in Vada whereas, in SusPtrit, both pre- and posthaustorial mechanisms play a role.
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- P M Dracatos
- First and fourth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; second and fifith authors: Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Laboratory of Plant Breeding, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; and third author: Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- First and fourth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; second and fifith authors: Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Laboratory of Plant Breeding, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; and third author: Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- First and fourth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; second and fifith authors: Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Laboratory of Plant Breeding, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; and third author: Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- First and fourth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; second and fifith authors: Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Laboratory of Plant Breeding, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; and third author: Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- First and fourth authors: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia; second and fifith authors: Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Laboratory of Plant Breeding, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; and third author: Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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Many plants, both in nature and in agriculture, are resistant to multiple diseases. Although much of the plant innate immunity system provides highly specific resistance, there is emerging evidence to support the hypothesis that some components of plant defense are relatively nonspecific, providing multiple disease resistance (MDR). Understanding MDR is of fundamental and practical interest to plant biologists, pathologists, and breeders. This review takes stock of the available evidence related to the MDR hypothesis. Questions about MDR are considered primarily through the lens of forward genetics, starting at the organismal level and proceeding to the locus level and, finally, to the gene level. At the organismal level, MDR may be controlled by clusters of R genes that evolve under diversifying selection, by dispersed, pathogen-specific genes, and/or by individual genes providing MDR. Based on the few MDR loci that are well-understood, MDR is conditioned by diverse mechanisms at the locus and gene levels.
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- Tyr Wiesner-Hanks
- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; ,
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; ,
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Dawson AM, Ferguson JN, Gardiner M, Green P, Hubbard A, Moscou MJ. Isolation and fine mapping of Rps6: an intermediate host resistance gene in barley to wheat stripe rust. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:831-843. [PMID: 26754419 PMCID: PMC4799244 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2659-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We uncouple host and nonhost resistance in barley to Puccinia striiformis ff. spp. hordei and tritici . We isolate, fine map, and physically anchor Rps6 to chromosome 7H in barley. A plant may be considered a nonhost of a pathogen if all known genotypes of a plant species are resistant to all known isolates of a pathogen species. However, if a small number of genotypes are susceptible to some known isolates of a pathogen species this plant may be considered an intermediate host. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is an intermediate host for Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), the causal agent of wheat stripe rust. We wanted to understand the genetic architecture underlying resistance to Pst and to determine whether any overlap exists with resistance to the host pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei (Psh). We mapped Pst resistance to chromosome 7H and show that host and intermediate host resistance is genetically uncoupled. Therefore, we designate this resistance locus Rps6. We used phenotypic and genotypic selection on F2:3 families to isolate Rps6 and fine mapped the locus to a 0.1 cM region. Anchoring of the Rps6 locus to the barley physical map placed the region on a single fingerprinted contig spanning a physical region of 267 kb. Efforts are now underway to sequence the minimal tiling path and to delimit the physical region harboring Rps6. This will facilitate additional marker development and permit identification of candidate genes in the region.
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- Andrew M Dawson
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
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Yeo FKS, Wang Y, Vozabova T, Huneau C, Leroy P, Chalhoub B, Qi XQ, Niks RE, Marcel TC. Haplotype divergence and multiple candidate genes at Rphq2, a partial resistance QTL of barley to Puccinia hordei. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:289-304. [PMID: 26542283 PMCID: PMC4733143 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2627-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Rphq2, a minor gene for partial resistance to Puccinia hordei , was physically mapped in a 188 kbp introgression with suppressed recombination between haplotypes of rphq2 and Rphq2 barley cultivars. ABSTRACT Partial and non-host resistances to rust fungi in barley (Hordeum vulgare) may be based on pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity. Understanding partial resistance may help to understand non-host resistance, and vice versa. We constructed two non-gridded BAC libraries from cultivar Vada and line SusPtrit. Vada is immune to non-adapted Puccinia rust fungi, and partially resistant to P. hordei. SusPtrit is susceptible to several non-adapted rust fungi, and has been used for mapping QTLs for non-host and partial resistance. The BAC libraries help to identify genes determining the natural variation for partial and non-host resistances of barley to rust fungi. A major-effect QTL, Rphq2, for partial resistance to P. hordei was mapped in a complete Vada and an incomplete SusPtrit contig. The physical distance between the markers flanking Rphq2 was 195 Kbp in Vada and at least 226 Kbp in SusPtrit. This marker interval was predicted to contain 12 genes in either accession, of which only five genes were in common. The haplotypes represented by Vada and SusPtrit were found in 57 and 43%, respectively, of a 194 barley accessions panel. The lack of homology between the two haplotypes probably explains the suppression of recombination in the Rphq2 area and limit further genetic resolution in fine mapping. The possible candidate genes for Rphq2 encode peroxidases, kinases and a member of seven-in-absentia protein family. This result suggests that Rphq2 does not belong to the NB-LRR gene family and does not resemble any of the partial resistance genes cloned previously.
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- F K S Yeo
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Plant Science and Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, University Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanxincun 20, Fragrant Hill, Beijing, 100093, China
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- The Institute of Botany of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- INRA, UMR1165, Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, 91057, Evry, France
- Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, UMR1165, Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, 91057, Evry, France
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- INRA, UMR1095, Genetics Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 63039, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Université Blaise Pascal, UMR1095, Genetics Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 63039, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- INRA, UMR1165, Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, 91057, Evry, France
- Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, UMR1165, Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, 91057, Evry, France
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanxincun 20, Fragrant Hill, Beijing, 100093, China
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- INRA, UMR1290, BIOGER, 78850, Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR1290, BIOGER, 78850, Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Dawson AM, Bettgenhaeuser J, Gardiner M, Green P, Hernández-Pinzón I, Hubbard A, Moscou MJ. The development of quick, robust, quantitative phenotypic assays for describing the host-nonhost landscape to stripe rust. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:876. [PMID: 26579142 PMCID: PMC4621417 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Nonhost resistance is often conceptualized as a qualitative separation from host resistance. Classification into these two states is generally facile, as they fail to fully describe the range of states that exist in the transition from host to nonhost. This poses a problem when studying pathosystems that cannot be classified as either host or nonhost due to their intermediate status relative to these two extremes. In this study, we investigate the efficacy of the Poaceae-stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend.) interaction for describing the host-nonhost landscape. First, using barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P. Beauv. We observed that macroscopic symptoms of chlorosis and leaf browning were associated with hyphal colonization by P. striiformis f. sp. tritici, respectively. This prompted us to adapt a protocol for visualizing fungal structures into a phenotypic assay that estimates the percent of leaf colonized. Use of this assay in intermediate host and intermediate nonhost systems found the frequency of infection decreases with evolutionary divergence from the host species. Similarly, we observed that the pathogen's ability to complete its life cycle decreased faster than its ability to colonize leaf tissue, with no incidence of pustules observed in the intermediate nonhost system and significantly reduced pustule formation in the intermediate host system as compared to the host system, barley-P. striiformis f. sp. hordei. By leveraging the stripe rust pathosystem in conjunction with macroscopic and microscopic phenotypic assays, we now hope to dissect the genetic architecture of intermediate host and intermediate nonhost resistance using structured populations in barley and B. distachyon.
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research ParkNorwich, UK
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Oliva RF, Cano LM, Raffaele S, Win J, Bozkurt TO, Belhaj K, Oh SK, Thines M, Kamoun S. A Recent Expansion of the RXLR Effector Gene Avrblb2 Is Maintained in Global Populations of Phytophthora infestans Indicating Different Contributions to Virulence. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2015; 28:901-12. [PMID: 25894205 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-12-14-0393-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The introgression of disease resistance (R) genes encoding immunoreceptors with broad-spectrum recognition into cultivated potato appears to be the most promising approach to achieve sustainable management of late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Rpi-blb2 from Solanum bulbocastanum shows great potential for use in agriculture based on preliminary potato disease trials. Rpi-blb2 confers immunity by recognizing the P. infestans avirulence effector protein AVRblb2 after it is translocated inside the plant cell. This effector belongs to the RXLR class of effectors and is under strong positive selection. Structure-function analyses revealed a key polymorphic amino acid (position 69) in AVRblb2 effector that is critical for activation of Rpi-blb2. In this study, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of the Avrblb2 gene family and further characterized its genetic structure in worldwide populations. Our data indicate that Avrblb2 evolved as a single-copy gene in a putative ancestral species of P. infestans and has recently expanded in the Phytophthora spp. that infect solanaceous hosts. As a consequence, at least four variants of AVRblb2 arose in P. infestans. One of these variants, with a Phe residue at position 69, evades recognition by the cognate resistance gene. Surprisingly, all Avrblb2 variants are maintained in pathogen populations. This suggests a potential benefit for the pathogen in preserving duplicated versions of AVRblb2, possibly because the variants may have different contributions to pathogen fitness in a diversified solanaceous host environment.
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- Ricardo F Oliva
- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- 2 Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- 3 Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- 4 Goethe University, Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Siesmayer. 70, D-60323 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- 5 Senckenberg Gesellschft für Naturforschung, Senckenbergallee 25, D-60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
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- 1 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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Kamino LN, Singh D, Pallotta MA, Collins NC, Park RF. Mapping of seedling resistance in barley to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. pseudohordei. J Appl Genet 2015. [PMID: 26198458 DOI: 10.1007/s13353-015-0304-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The barley grass stripe rust (BGYR) pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. pseudohordei was first detected in Australia in 1997. While studies have established that it is virulent on wild barley grass, and can infect several barley cultivars, the basis of genetic resistance to this pathogen in barley is largely unknown. Understanding the genetic basis of host resistance and ensuring the selection of germplasm with multiple resistance genes are important to mitigate the potential impact of BGYR in barley production. Genetic analysis of seedling resistance to BGYR in two barley doubled haploid populations, Amaji Nijo/WI2585 (AN/WI) and Galleon/Haruna Nijo (GL/HN), indicated that resistance is governed by several genes. Marker regression analysis of the seedling resistance data from the AN/WI population detected a major QTL, BGYR_WI1 (resistance contributed by WI2585 with the closest marker explaining 52 % of the total phenotypic effect) on chromosome 1HS, flanked by the loci Xabg59 and Xabc310b at map positions 0.0 and 6.9 cM, respectively. Similarly, a major QTL, BGYR_HN1, (resistance contributed by Haruna Nijo with the closest marker explaining 70 % of the total phenotypic effect) was detected in the GL/HN population and was mapped to 1HS, flanked by the loci Xbcd135 and XHOR1 at map positions 12.8 and 24.5 cM, respectively. In addition, several minor loci that provided resistance against BGYR were detected in both populations. While defined QTL intervals were large, the analysis nonetheless provides new information on sources of major QTL controlling resistance to BGYR.
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- L N Kamino
- Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia.
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- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, Waite campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, Waite campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, NSW, 2567, Australia
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Cheng Y, Yao J, Zhang H, Huang L, Kang Z. Cytological and molecular analysis of nonhost resistance in rice to wheat powdery mildew and leaf rust pathogens. PROTOPLASMA 2015; 252:1167-1179. [PMID: 25547964 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-014-0750-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Cereal powdery mildews caused by Blumeria graminis and cereal rusts caused by Puccinia spp. are constant disease threats that limit the production of almost all important cereal crops. Rice is an intensively grown agricultural cereal that is atypical because of its immunity to all powdery mildew and rust fungi. We analyzed the nonhost interactions between rice and the wheat powdery mildew fungus B. graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) and the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina (Ptr) to identify the basis of nonhost resistance (NHR) in rice against cereal powdery mildew and rust fungi at cytological and molecular levels. No visible symptoms were observed on rice leaves inoculated with Bgt or Ptr. Microscopic observations showed that both pathogens exhibited aberrant differentiation and significantly reduced penetration frequencies on rice compared to wheat. The development of Bgt and Ptr was also completely arrested at early infection stages in cases of successful penetration into rice leaves. Attempted infection of rice by Bgt and Ptr induced similar defense responses, including callose deposition, accumulation of reactive oxygen species, and hypersensitive response in rice epidermal and mesophyll cells, respectively. Furthermore, a set of defense-related genes were upregulated in rice against Bgt and Ptr infection. Rice is an excellent monocot model for genetic and molecular studies. Therefore, our results demonstrate that rice is a useful model to study the mechanisms of NHR to cereal powdery mildew and rust fungi, which provides useful information for the development of novel and durable strategies to control these important pathogens.
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- Yulin Cheng
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China
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Gutiérrez L, Germán S, Pereyra S, Hayes PM, Pérez CA, Capettini F, Locatelli A, Berberian NM, Falconi EE, Estrada R, Fros D, Gonza V, Altamirano H, Huerta-Espino J, Neyra E, Orjeda G, Sandoval-Islas S, Singh R, Turkington K, Castro AJ. Multi-environment multi-QTL association mapping identifies disease resistance QTL in barley germplasm from Latin America. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2015; 128:501-16. [PMID: 25548806 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2448-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Multi-environment multi-QTL mixed models were used in a GWAS context to identify QTL for disease resistance. The use of mega-environments aided the interpretation of environment-specific and general QTL. Diseases represent a major constraint for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) production in Latin America. Spot blotch (caused by Cochliobolus sativus), stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f.sp. hordei) and leaf rust (caused by Puccinia hordei) are three of the most important diseases that affect the crop in the region. Since fungicide application is not an economically or environmentally sound solution, the development of durably resistant varieties is a priority for breeding programs. Therefore, new resistance sources are needed. The objective of this work was to detect genomic regions associated with field level plant resistance to spot blotch, stripe rust, and leaf rust in Latin American germplasm. Disease severities measured in multi-environment trials across the Americas and 1,096 SNPs in a population of 360 genotypes were used to identify genomic regions associated with disease resistance. Optimized experimental design and spatial modeling were used in each trial to estimate genotypic means. Genome-Wide Association Mapping (GWAS) in each environment was used to detect Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL). All significant environment-specific QTL were subsequently included in a multi-environment-multi-QTL (MEMQ) model. Geographical origin and inflorescence type were the main determinants of population structure. Spot blotch severity was low to intermediate while leaf and stripe rust severity was high in all environments. Mega-environments were defined by locations for spot blotch and leaf rust. Significant marker-trait associations for spot blotch (9 QTL), leaf (6 QTL) and stripe rust (7 QTL) and both global and environment-specific QTL were detected that will be useful for future breeding efforts.
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- Lucia Gutiérrez
- Departmento de Biometria, Estadistica y Computo, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Garzón 780, Montevideo, Uruguay,
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Niks RE, Qi X, Marcel TC. Quantitative resistance to biotrophic filamentous plant pathogens: concepts, misconceptions, and mechanisms. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2015; 53:445-70. [PMID: 26047563 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080614-115928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Quantitative resistance (QR) refers to a resistance that is phenotypically incomplete and is based on the joined effect of several genes, each contributing quantitatively to the level of plant defense. Often, QR remains durably effective, which is the primary driver behind the interest in it. The various terms that are used to refer to QR, such as field resistance, adult plant resistance, and basal resistance, reflect the many properties attributed to it. In this article, we discuss aspects connected to those attributions, in particular the hypothesis that much of the QR to biotrophic filamentous pathogens is basal resistance, i.e., poor suppression of PAMP-triggered defense by effectors. We discuss what role effectors play in suppressing defense or improving access to nutrients. Based on the functions of the few plant proteins identified as involved in QR, vesicle trafficking and protein/metabolite transportation are likely to be common physiological processes relevant to QR.
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- Rients E Niks
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands;
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Schnaithmann F, Kopahnke D, Pillen K. A first step toward the development of a barley NAM population and its utilization to detect QTLs conferring leaf rust seedling resistance. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:1513-1525. [PMID: 24797143 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2315-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We suggest multi-parental nested association mapping as a valuable innovation in barley genetics, which increases the power to map quantitative trait loci and assists in extending genetic diversity of the elite barley gene pool. Plant genetic resources are a key asset to further improve crop species. The nested association mapping (NAM) approach was introduced to identify favorable genes in multi-parental populations. Here, we report toward the development of the first explorative barley NAM population and demonstrate its usefulness in a study on mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for leaf rust resistance. The NAM population HEB-5 was developed from crossing and backcrossing five exotic barley donors with the elite barley cultivar 'Barke,' resulting in 295 NAM lines in generation BC1S1. HEB-5 was genetically characterized with 1,536 barley SNPs. Across HEB-5 and within the NAM families, no deviation from the expected genotype and allele frequencies was detected. Genetic similarity between 'Barke' and the NAM families ranged from 78.6 to 83.1 %, confirming the backcrossing step during population development. To explore its usefulness, a screen for leaf rust (Puccinia hordei) seedling resistance was conducted. Resistance QTLs were mapped to six barley chromosomes, applying a mixed model genome-wide association study. In total, four leaf rust QTLs were detected across HEB-5 and four QTLs within family HEB-F23. Favorable exotic QTL alleles reduced leaf rust symptoms on two chromosomes by 33.3 and 36.2 %, respectively. The located QTLs may represent new resistance loci or correspond to new alleles of known resistance genes. We conclude that the exploratory population HEB-5 can be applied to mapping and utilizing exotic QTL alleles of agronomic importance. The NAM concept will foster the evaluation of the genetic diversity, which is present in our primary barley gene pool.
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- Florian Schnaithmann
- Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3, 06120, Halle, Germany
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Yang Y, Zhao J, Xing H, Wang J, Zhou K, Zhan G, Zhang H, Kang Z. Different non-host resistance responses of two rice subspecies, japonica and indica, to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2014; 33:423-33. [PMID: 24306352 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-013-1542-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2013] [Revised: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Japonica and indica have different non-host resistance (NHR) abilities to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici ( Pst ), and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) has a positive function in NHR to japonica against Pst. ABSTRACT Non-host interactions between Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) and two rice subspecies were characterized using 23 rice varieties, including 11 japonica and 12 indica. Results showed that the infected fungal structures were easily produced in the leaves of indica, whereas only several substomatal vesicles and primary infection hyphae were observed in the leaves of japonica. This result indicated that indica is less resistant or more susceptible to Pst than japonica. Hydrogen peroxide accumulated in the initial phase of japonica-Pst interaction but not in indica-Pst interaction. A set of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-related genes was also induced in response to Pst infection, suggesting that ROS activation is one of the major mechanisms of non-host resistance of rice to Pst.
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- Yuheng Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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Niu Z, Puri KD, Chao S, Jin Y, Sun Y, Steffenson BJ, Maan SS, Xu SS, Zhong S. Genetic analysis and molecular mapping of crown rust resistance in common wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:609-619. [PMID: 24306320 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2245-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2013] [Accepted: 11/20/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This is the first report on genetic analysis and genome mapping of major dominant genes for near non-host resistance to barley crown rust ( Puccinia coronata var. hordei ) in common wheat. Barley crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata var. hordei, primarily occurs on barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in the Great Plain regions of the United States. However, a few genotypes of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were susceptible to this pathogen among 750 wheat accessions evaluated. To investigate the genetics of crown rust resistance in wheat, a susceptible winter wheat accession PI 350005 was used in crosses with two resistant wheat varieties, Chinese Spring and Chris. Analysis of F1 plants and F2 populations from these two crosses indicated that crown rust resistance is controlled by one and two dominant genes in Chris and Chinese Spring, respectively. To determine the chromosome location of the resistance gene Cr1 in Chris, a set of 21 monosomic lines derived from Chris was used as female parents to cross with a susceptible spring type selection (SSTS35) derived from the PI 350005/Chris cross. Monosomic analysis indicated that Cr1 is located on chromosome 5D in Chris and one of the crown rust resistance genes is located on chromosome 2D in Chinese Spring. The other gene in Chinese Spring is not on 5D and thus is different from Cr1. Molecular linkage analysis and QTL mapping using a population of 136 doubled haploid lines derived from Chris/PI 350005 further positioned Cr1 between SSR markers Xwmc41-2 and Xgdm63 located on the long arm of chromosome 5D. Our study suggests that near non-host resistance to crown rust in these different common wheat genotypes is simply inherited.
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- Zhixia Niu
- USDA-ARS, Cereal Crops Research Unit, Northern Crop Science Laboratory, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
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Yeo FKS, Hensel G, Vozábová T, Martin-Sanz A, Marcel TC, Kumlehn J, Niks RE. Golden SusPtrit: a genetically well transformable barley line for studies on the resistance to rust fungi. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:325-37. [PMID: 24247233 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2221-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/18/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We developed 'Golden SusPtrit', i.e., a barley line combining SusPtrit's high susceptibility to non-adapted rust fungi with the high amenability of Golden Promise for transformation. Nonhost and partial resistance to Puccinia rust fungi in barley are polygenically inherited. These types of resistance are principally prehaustorial, show high diversity between accessions of the plant species and are genetically associated. To study nonhost and partial resistance, as well as their association, candidate gene(s) for resistance must be cloned and tested in susceptible material where SusPtrit would be the line of choice. Unfortunately, SusPtrit is not amenable to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Therefore, a doubled haploid (DH) mapping population (n = 122) was created by crossing SusPtrit with Golden Promise to develop a 'Golden SusPtrit', i.e., a barley line combining SusPtrit's high susceptibility to non-adapted rust fungi with the high amenability of Golden Promise for transformation. We identified nine genomic regions occupied by resistance quantitative trait loci (QTLs) against four non-adapted rust fungi and P. hordei isolate 1.2.1 (Ph.1.2.1). Four DHs were selected for an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation efficiency test. They were among the 12 DH lines most susceptible to the tested non-adapted rust fungi. The most efficiently transformed DH line was SG062N (11-17 transformants per 100 immature embryos). The level of non-adapted rust infection on SG062N is either similar to or higher than the level of infection on SusPtrit. Against Ph.1.2.1, the latency period conferred by SG062N is as short as that conferred by SusPtrit. SG062N, designated 'Golden SusPtrit', will be a valuable experimental line that could replace SusPtrit in nonhost and partial resistance studies, especially for stable transformation using candidate genes that may be involved in rust-resistance mechanisms.
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- F K S Yeo
- Department of Plant Science and Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, University Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Purifying selection after episodes of recurrent adaptive diversification in fungal pathogens. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2013; 17:123-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Revised: 02/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ayliffe M, Periyannan SK, Feechan A, Dry I, Schumann U, Wang MB, Pryor A, Lagudah E. A simple method for comparing fungal biomass in infected plant tissues. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2013; 26:658-67. [PMID: 23405866 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-12-12-0291-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Plant phenotypes resistant and susceptible to fungal pathogens are usually scored using qualitative, subjective methods that are based upon disease symptoms or by an estimation of the amount of visible fungal growth. Given that plant resistance genes often confer partial resistance to fungal pathogens, a simple, sensitive, nonsubjective quantitative method for measuring pathogen growth would be highly advantageous. This report describes an in planta quantitative assay for fungal biomass based upon detection of chitin using wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to a fluorophore. Using this assay, the growth of wheat rust pathogens on wheat was assayed and the additivity of several adult plant and seedling resistance genes to Puccinia striiformis, P. graminis, and P. triticina was assayed on both glasshouse- and field-grown material. The assay can discriminate between individual rust pustules on a leaf segment or, alternatively, compare fungal growth on field plots. The quantification of Erysiphe necator (powdery mildew) growth on Vitis vinifera (grapevine) is also demonstrated, with resistant and susceptible cultivars readily distinguished. Given that chitin is a major cell wall component of many plant fungal pathogens, this robust assay will enable simple and accurate measurement of biomass accumulation in many plant-fungus interactions.
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Barbieri M, Marcel TC, Niks RE, Francia E, Pasquariello M, Mazzamurro V, Garvin DF, Pecchioni N. QTLs for resistance to the false brome rust Puccinia brachypodii in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon L. Genome 2012; 55:152-63. [PMID: 22321152 DOI: 10.1139/g2012-001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The potential of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon L. (Brachypodium) for studying grass-pathogen interactions is still underexploited. We aimed to identify genomic regions in Brachypodium associated with quantitative resistance to the false brome rust fungus Puccinia brachypodii . The inbred lines Bd3-1 and Bd1-1, differing in their level of resistance to P. brachypodii, were crossed to develop an F(2) population. This was evaluated for reaction to a virulent isolate of P. brachypodii at both the seedling and advanced growth stages. To validate the results obtained on the F(2), resistance was quantified in F(2)-derived F(3) families in two experiments. Disease evaluations showed quantitative and transgressive segregation for resistance. A new AFLP-based Brachypodium linkage map consisting of 203 loci and spanning 812 cM was developed and anchored to the genome sequence with SSR and SNP markers. Three false brome rust resistance QTLs were identified on chromosomes 2, 3, and 4, and they were detected across experiments. This study is the first quantitative trait analysis in Brachypodium. Resistance to P. brachypodii was governed by a few QTLs: two acting at the seedling stage and one acting at both seedling and advanced growth stages. The results obtained offer perspectives to elucidate the molecular basis of quantitative resistance to rust fungi.
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- Mirko Barbieri
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e degli Alimenti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Li C, Faino L, Dong L, Fan J, Kiss L, De Giovanni C, Lebeda A, Scott J, Matsuda Y, Toyoda H, Lindhout P, Visser RGF, Bonnema G, Bai Y. Characterization of polygenic resistance to powdery mildew in tomato at cytological, biochemical and gene expression level. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2012; 13:148-59. [PMID: 21883866 PMCID: PMC6638637 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00737.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Extensive research in the area of plant innate immunity has increased considerably our understanding of the molecular mechanisms associated with resistance controlled by a dominant resistance gene. In contrast, little is known about the molecular basis underlying the resistance conferred by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). In this study, using the interaction of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) with Oidium neolycopersici, we compared the cytological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved in both monogenic and polygenic resistances conferred by a dominant gene (Ol-1) and three QTLs (Ol-qtls), respectively. Our results showed that the three Ol-qtls jointly confer a very high level of broad-spectrum resistance and that the resistance is associated with both the hypersensitive response and papillae formation, with the hypersensitive response being prevalent. Both H(2)O(2) and callose accumulation, which are coupled with Ol-1-mediated resistance, are also associated with the resistance conferred by Ol-qtls. Further, we analysed the pathogen-induced transcript profiles of near-isogenic lines carrying the three Ol-qtls and the Ol-1 gene. Transcript profiles obtained by cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis showed that, on fungal challenge, about 70% of the transcript-derived fragments are up-regulated in both susceptible and resistant genotypes. Most of the sequenced transcript-derived fragments showed homology to genes with functions in defence responses, suggesting that defence-responsive genes responsible for basal defence are involved in both monogenic and polygenic resistances conferred by Ol-1 and Ol-qtls, respectively. Although about 18% of the identified transcript-derived fragments are specific for either monogenic or polygenic resistance, their expression patterns need to be further verified by quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.
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- Chengwei Li
- Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Beirn LA, Moy M, Meyer WA, Clarke BB, Crouch JA. Molecular Analysis of Turfgrass Rusts Reveals the Widespread Distribution of Puccinia coronata as a Pathogen of Kentucky Bluegrass in the United States. PLANT DISEASE 2011; 95:1547-1557. [PMID: 30732017 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-01-11-0073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Over the past 10 years, rust diseases have become increasingly prevalent on certain cultivars of Kentucky bluegrass. This pattern suggests that new races or new species of rust fungi may have emerged. To test this hypothesis, 66 samples of turfgrass rust fungi collected from across the United States were evaluated based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-5.8S rDNA region. Phylogenetic analysis revealed three species: Puccinia coronata, P. graminis, and P. striiformis, comprising 67, 28, and 5% of the samples, respectively. P. coronata was frequently found in association with Kentucky bluegrass, a host-pathogen relationship that has not been previously reported. Comparison of molecular analyses with the use of standard field identification techniques-host association and pustule pigmentation-showed that 58% of the Kentucky bluegrass samples would have been incorrectly diagnosed using nonmolecular criteria. To avoid such misidentifications, a real-time polymerase chain reaction diagnostic protocol was developed for turfgrass-associated P. graminis, P. coronata, and P. striiformis using ITS sequences. Accurate, reproducible, species-specific identifications were made using as few as 50 to 150 urediniospores, even in mixed infections. This study represents the first DNA-based evaluation of turfgrass rust fungi and provides a quick and reliable sequence-based protocol as an alternative to less reliable field-based identification techniques.
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- Lisa A Beirn
- Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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- Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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- Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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- Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705
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Differential gene expression in nearly isogenic lines with QTL for partial resistance to Puccinia hordei in barley. BMC Genomics 2010; 11:629. [PMID: 21070652 PMCID: PMC3018140 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2010] [Accepted: 11/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The barley-Puccinia hordei (barley leaf rust) pathosystem is a model for investigating partial disease resistance in crop plants and genetic mapping of phenotypic resistance has identified several quantitative trait loci (QTL) for partial resistance. Reciprocal QTL-specific near-isogenic lines (QTL-NILs) have been developed that combine two QTL, Rphq2 and Rphq3, the largest effects detected in a recombinant-inbred-line (RIL) population derived from a cross between the super-susceptible line L94 and partially-resistant line Vada. The molecular mechanism underpinning partial resistance in these QTL-NILs is unknown. RESULTS An Agilent custom microarray consisting of 15,000 probes derived from barley consensus EST sequences was used to investigate genome-wide and QTL-specific differential expression of genes 18 hours post-inoculation (hpi) with Puccinia hordei. A total of 1,410 genes were identified as being significantly differentially expressed across the genome, of which 55 were accounted for by the genetic differences defined by QTL-NILs at Rphq2 and Rphq3. These genes were predominantly located at the QTL regions and are, therefore, positional candidates. One gene, encoding the transcriptional repressor Ethylene-Responsive Element Binding Factor 4 (HvERF4) was located outside the QTL at 71 cM on chromosome 1H, within a previously detected eQTL hotspot for defence response. The results indicate that Rphq2 or Rphq3 contains a trans-eQTL that modulates expression of HvERF4. We speculate that HvERF4 functions as an intermediate that conveys the response signal from a gene(s) contained within Rphq2 or Rphq3 to a host of down-stream defense responsive genes. Our results also reveal that barley lines with extreme or intermediate partial resistance phenotypes exhibit a profound similarity in their spectrum of Ph-responsive genes and that hormone-related signalling pathways are actively involved in response to Puccinia hordei. CONCLUSIONS Differential gene expression between QTL-NILs identifies genes predominantly located within the target region(s) providing both transcriptional and positional candidate genes for the QTL. Genetically mapping the differentially expressed genes relative to the QTL has the potential to discover trans-eQTL mediated regulatory relays initiated from genes within the QTL regions.
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Peroxidase profiling reveals genetic linkage between peroxidase gene clusters and basal host and non-host resistance to rusts and mildew in barley. PLoS One 2010; 5:e10495. [PMID: 20689842 PMCID: PMC2914007 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2009] [Accepted: 03/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Higher plants possess a large multigene family encoding secreted class III peroxidase (Prx) proteins. Peroxidases appear to be associated with plant disease resistance based on observations of induction during disease challenge and the presence or absence of isozymes in resistant vs susceptible varieties. Despite these associations, there is no evidence that allelic variation of peroxidases directly determines levels of disease resistance. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The current study introduces a new strategy called Prx-Profiling. We showed that with this strategy a large number of peroxidase genes can be mapped on the barley genome. In order to obtain an estimate of the total number of Prx clusters we followed a re-sampling procedure, which indicated that the barley genome contains about 40 peroxidase gene clusters. We examined the association between the Prxs mapped and the QTLs for resistance of barley to homologous and heterologous rusts, and to the barley powdery mildew fungus. We report that 61% of the QTLs for partial resistance to P. hordei, 61% of the QTLs for resistance to B. graminis and 47% of the QTLs for non-host resistance to other Puccinia species co-localize with Prx based markers. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE We conclude that Prx-Profiling was effective in finding the genetic location of Prx genes on the barley genome. The finding that QTLs for basal resistance to rusts and powdery mildew fungi tend to co-locate with Prx clusters provides a base for exploring the functional role of Prx-related genes in determining natural differences in levels of basal resistance.
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Giraud T, Gladieux P, Gavrilets S. Linking the emergence of fungal plant diseases with ecological speciation. Trends Ecol Evol 2010; 25:387-95. [PMID: 20434790 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2009] [Revised: 03/27/2010] [Accepted: 03/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Emerging diseases represent a growing worldwide problem accompanying global environmental changes. There is tremendous interest in identifying the factors controlling the appearance and spread of these diseases. Here, we discuss emerging fungal plant diseases, and argue that they often result from host shift speciation (a particular case of ecological speciation). We consider the factors controlling local adaptation and ecological speciation, and show that certain life-history traits of many fungal plant pathogens are conducive for rapid ecological speciation, thus favoring the emergence of novel pathogen species adapted to new hosts. We argue that placing the problem of emerging fungal diseases of plants within the context of ecological speciation can significantly improve our understanding of the biological mechanisms governing the emergence of such diseases.
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- Tatiana Giraud
- Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Universite Paris-Sud, 92120 Orsay, France
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Zellerhoff N, Himmelbach A, Dong W, Bieri S, Schaffrath U, Schweizer P. Nonhost resistance of barley to different fungal pathogens is associated with largely distinct, quantitative transcriptional responses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 152:2053-66. [PMID: 20172964 PMCID: PMC2850024 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.151829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2010] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Nonhost resistance protects plants against attack by the vast majority of potential pathogens, including phytopathogenic fungi. Despite its high biological importance, the molecular architecture of nonhost resistance has remained largely unexplored. Here, we describe the transcriptional responses of one particular genotype of barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare 'Ingrid') to three different pairs of adapted (host) and nonadapted (nonhost) isolates of fungal pathogens, which belong to the genera Blumeria (powdery mildew), Puccinia (rust), and Magnaporthe (blast). Nonhost resistance against each of these pathogens was associated with changes in transcript abundance of distinct sets of nonhost-specific genes, although general (not nonhost-associated) transcriptional responses to the different pathogens overlapped considerably. The powdery mildew- and blast-induced differences in transcript abundance between host and nonhost interactions were significantly correlated with differences between a near-isogenic pair of barley lines that carry either the Mlo wild-type allele or the mutated mlo5 allele, which mediates basal resistance to powdery mildew. Moreover, during the interactions of barley with the different host or nonhost pathogens, similar patterns of overrepresented and underrepresented functional categories of genes were found. The results suggest that nonhost resistance and basal host defense of barley are functionally related and that nonhost resistance to different fungal pathogens is associated with more robust regulation of complex but largely nonoverlapping sets of pathogen-responsive genes involved in similar metabolic or signaling pathways.
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Aghnoum R, Marcel TC, Johrde A, Pecchioni N, Schweizer P, Niks RE. Basal host resistance of barley to powdery mildew: connecting quantitative trait Loci and candidate genes. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2010; 23:91-102. [PMID: 19958142 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-23-1-0091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The basal resistance of barley to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei) is a quantitatively inherited trait that is based on nonhypersensitive mechanisms of defense. A functional genomic approach indicates that many plant candidate genes are involved in the defense against formation of fungal haustoria. It is not known which of these candidate genes have allelic variation that contributes to the natural variation in powdery mildew resistance, because many of them may be highly conserved within the barley species and may act downstream of the basal resistance reaction. Twenty-two expressed sequence tag or cDNA clone sequences that are likely to play a role in the barley-Blumeria interaction based on transcriptional profiling, gene silencing, or overexpression data, as well as mlo, Ror1, and Ror2, were mapped and considered candidate genes for contribution to basal resistance. We mapped the quantitative trait loci (QTL) for powdery mildew resistance in six mapping populations of barley at seedling and adult plant stages and developed an improved high-density integrated genetic map containing 6,990 markers for comparing QTL and candidate gene positions over mapping populations. We mapped 12 QTL at seedling stage and 13 QTL at adult plant stage, of which four were in common between the two developmental stages. Six of the candidate genes showed coincidence in their map positions with the QTL identified for basal resistance to powdery mildew. This co-localization justifies giving priority to those six candidate genes to validate them as being responsible for the phenotypic effects of the QTL for basal resistance.
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- Reza Aghnoum
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Aghnoum R, Niks RE. Specificity and levels of nonhost resistance to nonadapted Blumeria graminis forms in barley. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2010; 185:275-84. [PMID: 19814777 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03039.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The genetic basis of nonhost resistance of barley to nonadapted formae speciales of Blumeria graminis is not known, as there is no barley line that is susceptible to these nonadapted formae speciales, such as the wheat powdery mildew pathogen, Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici (Bgt). Barley accessions with rudimentary susceptibility to an isolate of the nonadapted Bgt were identified. Those accessions were intercrossed in two cycles and two lines, called SusBgt(SC) and SusBgt(DC), with substantial susceptibility to Bgt at the seedling stage were selected. The quantitative variation among barley accessions and in the progenies after convergent crossing suggests a polygenic basis for this nonhost resistance. Both lines allowed an unusually high level of haustorium formation and colony development by Bgt. The SusBgt lines and their ancestor lines also allowed haustorium formation and conidiation by four out of seven isolates of other nonadapted B. graminis forms. Analysis of the infection process suggested that nonhost resistance factors are specific to the form and developmental stage of B. graminis. Resistances to establishment (first haustorium), colonization (subsequent haustoria) and conidiation are not associated. The lines developed will be of use in elucidating the genetic basis of nonhost resistance to Bgt in barley, and in gene expression and complementation studies on nonhost resistance.
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- Reza Aghnoum
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Nonhost resistance to plant pathogens can be constitutive or induced by microbes. Successful pathogens suppress microbe-induced plant defences by delivering appropriate effectors, which are apparently not sufficiently effective on nonhost plant species, as can be concluded from the strong host specificity of many biotroph plant pathogens. Such effectors act on particular plant targets, such as promoters or motifs in expressed sequences. Despite much progress in the elucidation of the molecular aspects of nonhost resistance to plant pathogens, very little is known about the genes that determine whether effectors can or cannot suppress the basal defence. In hosts they can, in nonhosts they cannot. The targets determining the host status of plants can be identified in inheritance studies. Recent reports have indicated that nonhost resistance is inherited polygenically, and exhibits strong similarity and association with the basal resistance of plants to adapted pathogens.
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- Rients E Niks
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, PO Box 386, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Alaei H, De Backer M, Nuytinck J, Maes M, Höfte M, Heungens K. Phylogenetic relationships of Puccinia horiana and other rust pathogens of Chrysanthemum×morifolium based on rDNA ITS sequence analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 113:668-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2008] [Revised: 12/22/2008] [Accepted: 02/16/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Structure-function analysis of the barley genome: the gene-rich region of chromosome 2HL. Funct Integr Genomics 2008; 9:67-79. [PMID: 18958509 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-008-0099-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2008] [Revised: 09/03/2008] [Accepted: 10/13/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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A major gene-rich region on the end of the long arm of Triticeae group 2 chromosomes exhibits high recombination frequencies, making it an attractive region for positional cloning. Traits known to be controlled by this region include chasmogamy/cleistogamy, frost tolerance at flowering, grain yield, head architecture, and resistance to Fusarium head blight and rusts. To assist these cloning efforts, we constructed detailed genetic maps of barley chromosome 2H, including 61 polymerase chain reaction markers. Colinearity with rice occurred in eight distinct blocks, including five blocks in the terminal gene-rich region. Alignment of rice sequences from the junctions of colinear chromosome segments provided no evidence for the involvement of long (>2.5 kb) inverted repeats in generating inversions. However, reuse of some junction sequences in two or three separate evolutionary breakage/fusion events was implicated, suggesting the presence of fragile sites. Sequencing across 91 gene fragments totaling 107 kb from four barley genotypes revealed the highest single nucleotide substitution and insertion-deletion polymorphism levels in the terminal regions of the chromosome arms. The maps will assist in the isolation of genes from the chromosome 2L gene-rich region in barley and wheat by providing markers and accelerating the identification of the corresponding points in the rice genome sequence.
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Inheritance studies on the nonhost resistance of plants would normally require interspecific crosses that suffer from sterility and abnormal segregation. Therefore, we developed the barley-Puccinia rust model system to study, using forward genetics, the specificity, number, and diversity of genes involved in nonhost resistance. We developed two mapping populations by crossing the line SusPtrit, with exceptional susceptibility to heterologous rust species, with the immune barley cultivars Vada and Cebada Capa. These two mapping populations along with the Oregon Wolfe Barley population, which showed unexpected segregation for resistance to heterologous rusts, were phenotyped with four heterologous rust fungal species. Positions of QTL conferring nonhost resistance in the three mapping populations were compared using an integrated consensus map. The results confirmed that nonhost resistance in barley to heterologous rust species is controlled by QTL with different and overlapping specificities and by an occasional contribution of an R-gene for hypersensitivity. In each population, different sets of loci were implicated in resistance. Few genes were common between the populations, suggesting a high diversity of genes conferring nonhost resistance to heterologous pathogens. These loci were significantly associated with QTL for partial resistance to the pathogen Puccinia hordei and with defense-related genes.
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Marcel TC, Aghnoum R, Durand J, Varshney RK, Niks RE. Dissection of the barley 2L1.0 region carrying the 'Laevigatum' quantitative resistance gene to leaf rust using near-isogenic lines (NIL) and subNIL. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2007; 20:1604-15. [PMID: 17990968 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-20-12-1604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Partial resistance to leaf rust (Puccinia hordei G. H. Otth) in barley is a quantitative resistance that is not based on hypersensitivity. This resistance hampers haustorium formation, resulting in a long latency period in greenhouse tests. The three most consistent quantitative trait loci (QTL) uncovered in the L94 x 'Vada' mapping population were introgressed by marker-assisted backcrossing into the susceptible L94 background to obtain near-isogenic lines (NIL). We also developed the reciprocal Vada-NIL for the susceptibility alleles of those QTL. The QTL Rphq2 affected latency period of P. hordei more than the QTL Rphq3 and Rphq4. The NIL confirmed the contribution of Rphq2 to partial resistance by prolonging the latency period by 28 h on L94-Rphq2 and shortening the latency period by 23 h on Vada-rphq2. On the basis of flanking restriction fragment length polymorphism-based markers, Rphq2 appeared to be located near the telomeric end of the long arm of chromosome 2H, in a physical region of high recombination, making it the target QTL for map-based cloning. Microscopic observations on the NIL confirmed the nonhypersensitive nature of the resistance conferred by Rphq2. A high-resolution genetic map of the Rphq2 region was constructed using a population of 38 subNIL with overlapping L94 introgressions in Vada background across the region. Rphq2 mapped approximately 2 centimorgans (cM) proximal from the MlLa locus. By bulked segregant analysis and use of synteny with rice, we developed additional markers and fine-mapped Rphq2 to a genetic interval of 0.11 cM that corresponds to a stretch of sequence of, at most, 70 kb in rice. Analysis of this rice sequence revealed predicted genes encoding two proteins with unknown function, retrotransposon proteins, peroxidase proteins, and a protein similar to a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K). Possible homologs of those peroxidases and MAP3K in barley are candidates for the gene that contributes to partial resistance to P. hordei.
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- Thierry C Marcel
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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Varshney RK, Marcel TC, Ramsay L, Russell J, Röder MS, Stein N, Waugh R, Langridge P, Niks RE, Graner A. A high density barley microsatellite consensus map with 775 SSR loci. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2007; 114:1091-103. [PMID: 17345060 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-007-0503-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2006] [Accepted: 01/07/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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A microsatellite or simple sequence repeat (SSR) consensus map of barley was constructed by joining six independent genetic maps based on the mapping populations 'Igri x Franka', 'Steptoe x Morex', 'OWB(Rec) x OWB(Dom)', 'Lina x Canada Park', 'L94 x Vada' and 'SusPtrit x Vada'. Segregation data for microsatellite markers from different research groups including SCRI (Bmac, Bmag, EBmac, EBmag, HVGeneName, scsssr), IPK (GBM, GBMS), WUR (GBM), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (HVM), and MPI for Plant Breeding (HVGeneName), generated in above mapping populations, were used in the computer program RECORD to order the markers of the individual linkage data sets. Subsequently, a framework map was constructed for each chromosome by integrating the 496 "bridge markers" common to two or more individual maps with the help of the computer programme JoinMap 3.0. The final map was calculated by following a "neighbours" map approach. The integrated map contained 775 unique microsatellite loci, from 688 primer pairs, ranging from 93 (6H) to 132 (2H) and with an average of 111 markers per linkage group. The genomic DNA-derived SSR marker loci had a higher polymorphism information content value (average 0.61) as compared to the EST/gene-derived SSR loci (average 0.48). The consensus map spans 1,068 cM providing an average density of one SSR marker every 1.38 cM. Such a high-density consensus SSR map provides barley molecular breeding programmes with a better choice regarding the quality of markers and a higher probability of polymorphic markers in an important chromosomal interval. This map also offers the possibilities of thorough alignment for the (future) physical map and implementation in haplotype diversity studies of barley.
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- R K Varshney
- Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany.
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Marcel TC, Varshney RK, Barbieri M, Jafary H, de Kock MJD, Graner A, Niks RE. A high-density consensus map of barley to compare the distribution of QTLs for partial resistance to Puccinia hordei and of defence gene homologues. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2007; 114:487-500. [PMID: 17115126 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-006-0448-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2006] [Accepted: 10/25/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A consensus map of barley was constructed based on three reference doubled haploid (DH) populations and three recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations. Several sets of microsatellites were used as bridge markers in the integration of those populations previously genotyped with RFLP or with AFLP markers. Another set of 61 genic microsatellites was mapped for the first time using a newly developed fluorescent labelling strategy, referred to as A/T labelling. The final map contains 3,258 markers spanning 1,081 centiMorgans (cM) with an average distance between two adjacent loci of 0.33 cM. This is the highest density of markers reported for a barley genetic map to date. The consensus map was divided into 210 BINs of about 5 cM each in which were placed 19 quantitative trait loci (QTL) contributing to the partial resistance to barley leaf rust (Puccinia hordei Otth) in five of the integrated populations. Each parental barley combination segregated for different sets of QTLs, with only few QTLs shared by any pair of cultivars. Defence gene homologues (DGH) were identified by tBlastx homology to known genes involved in the defence of plants against microbial pathogens. Sixty-three DGHs were located into the 210 BINs in order to identify candidate genes responsible for the QTL effects. Eight BINs were co-occupied by a QTL and DGH(s). The positional candidates identified are receptor-like kinase, WIR1 homologues and several defence response genes like peroxidases, superoxide dismutase and thaumatin.
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- T C Marcel
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate school for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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