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Vo KTX, Yi Q, Jeon JS. Engineering effector-triggered immunity in rice: Obstacles and perspectives. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023; 46:1143-1156. [PMID: 36305486 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Improving rice immunity is one of the most effective approaches to reduce yield loss by biotic factors, with the aim of increasing rice production by 2050 amidst limited natural resources. Triggering a fast and strong immune response to pathogens, effector-triggered immunity (ETI) has intrigued scientists to intensively study and utilize the mechanisms for engineering highly resistant plants. The conservation of ETI components and mechanisms across species enables the use of ETI components to generate broad-spectrum resistance in plants. Numerous efforts have been made to introduce new resistance (R) genes, widen the effector recognition spectrum and generate on-demand R genes. Although engineering ETI across plant species is still associated with multiple challenges, previous attempts have provided an enhanced understanding of ETI mechanisms. Here, we provide a survey of recent reports in the engineering of rice R genes. In addition, we suggest a framework for future studies of R gene-effector interactions, including genome-scale investigations in both rice and pathogens, followed by structural studies of R proteins and effectors, and potential strategies to use important ETI components to improve rice immunity.
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- Kieu Thi Xuan Vo
- Graduate School of Green-Bio Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea
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- Graduate School of Green-Bio Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea
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- Graduate School of Green-Bio Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea
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TaSYP137 and TaVAMP723, the SNAREs Proteins from Wheat, Reduce Resistance to Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054830. [PMID: 36902258 PMCID: PMC10003616 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Revised: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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SNARE protein is an essential factor driving vesicle fusion in eukaryotes. Several SNAREs have been shown to play a crucial role in protecting against powdery mildew and other pathogens. In our previous study, we identified SNARE family members and analyzed their expression pattern in response to powdery mildew infection. Based on quantitative expression and RNA-seq results, we focused on TaSYP137/TaVAMP723 and hypothesized that they play an important role in the interaction between wheat and Blumeria graminis f. sp. Tritici (Bgt). In this study, we measured the expression patterns of TaSYP132/TaVAMP723 genes in wheat post-infection with Bgt and found that the expression pattern of TaSYP137/TaVAMP723 was opposite in resistant and susceptible wheat samples infected by Bgt. The overexpression of TaSYP137/TaVAMP723 disrupted wheat's defense against Bgt infection, while silencing these genes enhanced its resistance to Bgt. Subcellular localization studies revealed that TaSYP137/TaVAMP723 are present in both the plasma membrane and nucleus. The interaction between TaSYP137 and TaVAMP723 was confirmed using the yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system. This study offers novel insights into the involvement of SNARE proteins in the resistance of wheat against Bgt, thereby enhancing our comprehension of the role of the SNARE family in the pathways related to plant disease resistance.
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Bonnamy M, Pinel-Galzi A, Gorgues L, Chalvon V, Hébrard E, Chéron S, Nguyen TH, Poulicard N, Sabot F, Pidon H, Champion A, Césari S, Kroj T, Albar L. Rapid evolution of an RNA virus to escape recognition by a rice nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat domain immune receptor. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:900-913. [PMID: 36229931 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Viral diseases are a major limitation for crop production, and their control is crucial for sustainable food supply. We investigated by a combination of functional genetics and experimental evolution the resistance of rice to the rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV), which is among the most devastating rice pathogens in Africa, and the mechanisms underlying the extremely fast adaptation of the virus to its host. We found that the RYMV3 gene that protects rice against the virus codes for a nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat domain immune receptor (NLRs) from the Mla-like clade of NLRs. RYMV3 detects the virus by forming a recognition complex with the viral coat protein (CP). The virus escapes efficiently from detection by mutations in its CP, some of which interfere with the formation of the recognition complex. This study establishes that NLRs also confer in monocotyledonous plants immunity to viruses, and reveals an unexpected functional diversity for NLRs of the Mla clade that were previously only known as fungal disease resistance proteins. In addition, it provides precise insight into the mechanisms by which viruses adapt to plant immunity and gives important knowledge for the development of sustainable resistance against viral diseases of cereals.
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- Mélia Bonnamy
- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, 34394, Montpellier, France
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- DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, 34394, Montpellier, France
- Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance, Julius Kühn Institute, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 34980, Montpellier, France
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Zhang R, Lu C, Meng X, Fan Y, Du J, Liu R, Feng Y, Xing L, Cápal P, Holušová K, Doležel J, Wang Y, Mu H, Sun B, Hou F, Yao R, Xiong C, Wang Y, Chen P, Cao A. Fine mapping of powdery mildew and stripe rust resistance genes Pm5V/Yr5V transferred from Dasypyrum villosum into wheat without yield penalty. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:3629-3642. [PMID: 36038638 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04206-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The novel wheat powdery mildew and stripe rust resistance genes Pm5V/Yr5V are introgressed from Dasypyrum villosum and fine mapped to a narrowed region in 5VS, and their effects on yield-related traits were characterized. The powdery mildew and stripe rust seriously threaten wheat production worldwide. Dasypyrum villosum (2n = 2x = 14, VV), a relative of wheat, is a valuable resource of resistance genes for wheat improvement. Here, we describe a platform for rapid introgression of the resistance genes from D. villosum into the wheat D genome. A complete set of new wheat-D. villosum V (D) disomic substitution lines and 11 D/V Robertsonian translocation lines are developed and characterized by molecular cytogenetic method. A new T5DL·5V#5S line NAU1908 shows resistance to both powdery mildew and stripe rust, and the resistances associated with 5VS are confirmed to be conferred by seedling resistance gene Pm5V and adult-plant resistance gene Yr5V, respectively. We flow-sort chromosome arm 5VS and sequence it using the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 system that allows us to generate 5VS-specific markers for genetic mapping of Pm5V/Yr5V. Fine mapping shows that Pm5V and Yr5V are closely linked and the location is narrowed to an approximately 0.9 Mb region referencing the sequence of Chinese Spring 5DS. In this region, a NLR gene in scaffold 24,874 of 5VS orthologous to TraesCS5D02G044300 is the most likely candidate gene for Pm5V. Soft- and hard-grained T5DL·5V#5S introgressions confer resistance to both powdery mildew and stripe rust in diverse wheat genetic backgrounds without yield penalty. Meanwhile, significant decrease in plant height and increase in yield were observed in NIL-5DL·5V#5S compared with that in NIL-5DL·5DS. These results indicate that Pm5V/Yr5V lines might have the potential value to facilitate wheat breeding for disease resistance.
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- Ruiqi Zhang
- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Agronomy of Nanjing Agricultural University/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement /JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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Velásquez-Zapata V, Elmore JM, Fuerst G, Wise RP. An interolog-based barley interactome as an integration framework for immune signaling. Genetics 2022; 221:iyac056. [PMID: 35435213 PMCID: PMC9157089 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The barley MLA nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat (NLR) receptor and its orthologs confer recognition specificity to many fungal diseases, including powdery mildew, stem-, and stripe rust. We used interolog inference to construct a barley protein interactome (Hordeum vulgare predicted interactome, HvInt) comprising 66,133 edges and 7,181 nodes, as a foundation to explore signaling networks associated with MLA. HvInt was compared with the experimentally validated Arabidopsis interactome of 11,253 proteins and 73,960 interactions, verifying that the 2 networks share scale-free properties, including a power-law distribution and small-world network. Then, by successive layering of defense-specific "omics" datasets, HvInt was customized to model cellular response to powdery mildew infection. Integration of HvInt with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) enabled us to infer disease modules and responses associated with fungal penetration and haustorial development. Next, using HvInt and infection-time-course RNA sequencing of immune signaling mutants, we assembled resistant and susceptible subnetworks. The resulting differentially coexpressed (resistant - susceptible) interactome is essential to barley immunity, facilitates the flow of signaling pathways and is linked to mildew resistance locus a (Mla) through trans eQTL associations. Lastly, we anchored HvInt with new and previously identified interactors of the MLA coiled coli + nucleotide-binding domains and extended these to additional MLA alleles, orthologs, and NLR outgroups to predict receptor localization and conservation of signaling response. These results link genomic, transcriptomic, and physical interactions during MLA-specified immunity.
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- Valeria Velásquez-Zapata
- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Mining of Cloned Disease Resistance Gene Homologs (CDRHs) in Brassica Species and Arabidopsis thaliana. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11060821. [PMID: 35741342 PMCID: PMC9220128 DOI: 10.3390/biology11060821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Revised: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Simple Summary Developing cultivars with resistance genes (R genes) is an effective strategy to support high yield and quality in Brassica crops. The availability of clone R gene and genomic sequences in Brassica species and Arabidopsis thaliana provide the opportunity to compare genomic regions and survey R genes across genomic databases. In this paper, we aim to identify genes related to cloned genes through sequence identity, providing a repertoire of species-wide related R genes in Brassica crops. The comprehensive list of candidate R genes can be used as a reference for functional analysis. Abstract Various diseases severely affect Brassica crops, leading to significant global yield losses and a reduction in crop quality. In this study, we used the complete protein sequences of 49 cloned resistance genes (R genes) that confer resistance to fungal and bacterial diseases known to impact species in the Brassicaceae family. Homology searches were carried out across Brassica napus, B. rapa, B. oleracea, B. nigra, B. juncea, B. carinata and Arabidopsis thaliana genomes. In total, 660 cloned disease R gene homologs (CDRHs) were identified across the seven species, including 431 resistance gene analogs (RGAs) (248 nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeats (NLRs), 150 receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) and 33 receptor-like proteins (RLPs)) and 229 non-RGAs. Based on the position and distribution of specific homologs in each of the species, we observed a total of 87 CDRH clusters composed of 36 NLR, 16 RLK and 3 RLP homogeneous clusters and 32 heterogeneous clusters. The CDRHs detected consistently across the seven species are candidates that can be investigated for broad-spectrum resistance, potentially providing resistance to multiple pathogens. The R genes identified in this study provide a novel resource for the future functional analysis and gene cloning of Brassicaceae R genes towards crop improvement.
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Athiyannan N, Abrouk M, Boshoff WHP, Cauet S, Rodde N, Kudrna D, Mohammed N, Bettgenhaeuser J, Botha KS, Derman SS, Wing RA, Prins R, Krattinger SG. Long-read genome sequencing of bread wheat facilitates disease resistance gene cloning. Nat Genet 2022; 54:227-231. [PMID: 35288708 PMCID: PMC8920886 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01022-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The cloning of agronomically important genes from large, complex crop genomes remains challenging. Here we generate a 14.7 gigabase chromosome-scale assembly of the South African bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivar Kariega by combining high-fidelity long reads, optical mapping and chromosome conformation capture. The resulting assembly is an order of magnitude more contiguous than previous wheat assemblies. Kariega shows durable resistance to the devastating fungal stripe rust disease1. We identified the race-specific disease resistance gene Yr27, which encodes an intracellular immune receptor, to be a major contributor to this resistance. Yr27 is allelic to the leaf rust resistance gene Lr13; the Yr27 and Lr13 proteins show 97% sequence identity2,3. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of generating chromosome-scale wheat assemblies to clone genes, and exemplify that highly similar alleles of a single-copy gene can confer resistance to different pathogens, which might provide a basis for engineering Yr27 alleles with multiple recognition specificities in the future.
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- Naveenkumar Athiyannan
- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- INRAE-CNRGV French Plant Genomic Resource Center, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- INRAE-CNRGV French Plant Genomic Resource Center, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- CenGen (Pty) Ltd, Worcester, South Africa.
- Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
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Huang Z, Qiao F, Yang B, Liu J, Liu Y, Wulff BBH, Hu P, Lv Z, Zhang R, Chen P, Xing L, Cao A. Genome-wide identification of the NLR gene family in Haynaldia villosa by SMRT-RenSeq. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:118. [PMID: 35144544 PMCID: PMC8832786 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08334-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background Nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) genes have attracted wide attention due to their crucial role in protecting plants from pathogens. SMRT-RenSeq, combining PacBio sequencing after resistance gene enrichment sequencing (RenSeq), is a powerful method for selectively capturing and sequencing full-length NLRs. Haynaldia villosa, a wild grass species with a proven potential for wheat improvement, confers resistance to multiple diseases. So, genome-wide identification of the NLR gene family in Haynaldia villosa by SMRT-RenSeq can facilitate disease resistance genes exploration. Results In this study, SMRT-RenSeq was performed to identify the genome-wide NLR complement of H. villosa. In total, 1320 NLRs were annotated in 1169 contigs, including 772 complete NLRs. All the complete NLRs were phylogenetically analyzed and 11 main clades with special characteristics were derived. NLRs could be captured with high efficiency when aligned with cloned R genes, and cluster expansion in some specific gene loci was observed. The physical location of NLRs to individual chromosomes in H. villosa showed a perfect homoeologous relationship with group 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of other Triticeae species, however, NLRs physically located on 4VL were largely in silico predicted to be located on the homoeologous group 7. Fifteen types of integrated domains (IDs) were integrated in 52 NLRs, and Kelch and B3 NLR-IDs were found to have expanded in H. villosa, while DUF948, NAM-associated and PRT_C were detected as unique integrated domains implying the new emergence of NLR-IDs after H. villosa diverged from other species. Conclusion SMRT-RenSeq is a powerful tool to identify NLR genes from wild species using the baits of the evolutionary related species with reference sequences. The availability of the NLRs from H. villosa provide a valuable library for R gene mining and transfer of disease resistance into wheat. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-022-08334-w.
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- Zhenpu Huang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.,Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/CIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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Recent advances in molecular farming using monocot plants. Biotechnol Adv 2022; 58:107913. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Bettgenhaeuser J, Hernández-Pinzón I, Dawson AM, Gardiner M, Green P, Taylor J, Smoker M, Ferguson JN, Emmrich P, Hubbard A, Bayles R, Waugh R, Steffenson BJ, Wulff BBH, Dreiseitl A, Ward ER, Moscou MJ. The barley immune receptor Mla recognizes multiple pathogens and contributes to host range dynamics. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6915. [PMID: 34824299 PMCID: PMC8617247 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27288-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Crop losses caused by plant pathogens are a primary threat to stable food production. Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) is a fungal pathogen of cereal crops that causes significant, persistent yield loss. Stripe rust exhibits host species specificity, with lineages that have adapted to infect wheat and barley. While wheat stripe rust and barley stripe rust are commonly restricted to their corresponding hosts, the genes underlying this host specificity remain unknown. Here, we show that three resistance genes, Rps6, Rps7, and Rps8, contribute to immunity in barley to wheat stripe rust. Rps7 cosegregates with barley powdery mildew resistance at the Mla locus. Using transgenic complementation of different Mla alleles, we confirm allele-specific recognition of wheat stripe rust by Mla. Our results show that major resistance genes contribute to the host species specificity of wheat stripe rust on barley and that a shared genetic architecture underlies resistance to the adapted pathogen barley powdery mildew and non-adapted pathogen wheat stripe rust.
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- Jan Bettgenhaeuser
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
- KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA, 37574, Einbeck, Germany
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, England, UK
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- NIAB, 93 Lawrence Weaver Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, England, UK
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- The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
- Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Integrated Plant Protection, Agrotest Fyto Ltd, Havlíčkova 2787, CZ-767 01, Kroměříž, Czech Republic
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK
- AgBiome, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UK, England, UK.
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Chapman AVE, Hunt M, Surana P, Velásquez-Zapata V, Xu W, Fuerst G, Wise RP. Disruption of barley immunity to powdery mildew by an in-frame Lys-Leu deletion in the essential protein SGT1. Genetics 2021; 217:6043926. [PMID: 33724411 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyaa026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Mla (Mildew resistance locus a) and its nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich-repeat receptor (NLR) orthologs protect many cereal crops from diseases caused by fungal pathogens. However, large segments of the Mla pathway and its mechanisms remain unknown. To further characterize the molecular interactions required for NLR-based immunity, we used fast-neutron mutagenesis to screen for plants compromised in MLA-mediated response to the powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei. One variant, m11526, contained a novel mutation, designated rar3 (required for Mla6 resistance3), that abolishes race-specific resistance conditioned by the Mla6, Mla7, and Mla12 alleles, but does not compromise immunity mediated by Mla1, Mla9, Mla10, and Mla13. This is analogous to, but unique from, the differential requirement of Mla alleles for the co-chaperone Rar1 (required for Mla12 resistance1). We used bulked-segregant-exome capture and fine mapping to delineate the causal mutation to an in-frame Lys-Leu deletion within the SGS domain of SGT1 (Suppressor of G-two allele of Skp1, Sgt1ΔKL308-309), the structural region that interacts with MLA proteins. In nature, mutations to Sgt1 usually cause lethal phenotypes, but here we pinpoint a unique modification that delineates its requirement for some disease resistances, while unaffecting others as well as normal cell processes. Moreover, the data indicate that the requirement of SGT1 for resistance signaling by NLRs can be delimited to single sites on the protein. Further study could distinguish the regions by which pathogen effectors and host proteins interact with SGT1, facilitating precise editing of effector incompatible variants.
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- Antony V E Chapman
- Interdepartmental Genetics & Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Interdepartmental Genetics & Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Interdepartmental Genetics & Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Velásquez-Zapata V, Elmore JM, Banerjee S, Dorman KS, Wise RP. Next-generation yeast-two-hybrid analysis with Y2H-SCORES identifies novel interactors of the MLA immune receptor. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1008890. [PMID: 33798202 PMCID: PMC8046355 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Protein-protein interaction networks are one of the most effective representations of cellular behavior. In order to build these models, high-throughput techniques are required. Next-generation interaction screening (NGIS) protocols that combine yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) with deep sequencing are promising approaches to generate interactome networks in any organism. However, challenges remain to mining reliable information from these screens and thus, limit its broader implementation. Here, we present a computational framework, designated Y2H-SCORES, for analyzing high-throughput Y2H screens. Y2H-SCORES considers key aspects of NGIS experimental design and important characteristics of the resulting data that distinguish it from RNA-seq expression datasets. Three quantitative ranking scores were implemented to identify interacting partners, comprising: 1) significant enrichment under selection for positive interactions, 2) degree of interaction specificity among multi-bait comparisons, and 3) selection of in-frame interactors. Using simulation and an empirical dataset, we provide a quantitative assessment to predict interacting partners under a wide range of experimental scenarios, facilitating independent confirmation by one-to-one bait-prey tests. Simulation of Y2H-NGIS enabled us to identify conditions that maximize detection of true interactors, which can be achieved with protocols such as prey library normalization, maintenance of larger culture volumes and replication of experimental treatments. Y2H-SCORES can be implemented in different yeast-based interaction screenings, with an equivalent or superior performance than existing methods. Proof-of-concept was demonstrated by discovery and validation of novel interactions between the barley nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptor MLA6, and fourteen proteins, including those that function in signaling, transcriptional regulation, and intracellular trafficking.
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- Valeria Velásquez-Zapata
- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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Han X, Zhang L, Zhao L, Xue P, Qi T, Zhang C, Yuan H, Zhou L, Wang D, Qiu J, Shen QH. SnRK1 Phosphorylates and Destabilizes WRKY3 to Enhance Barley Immunity to Powdery Mildew. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2020; 1:100083. [PMID: 33367247 PMCID: PMC7747994 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Plants recognize pathogens and activate immune responses, which usually involve massive transcriptional reprogramming. The evolutionarily conserved kinase, Sucrose non-fermenting-related kinase 1 (SnRK1), functions as a metabolic regulator that is essential for plant growth and stress responses. Here, we identify barley SnRK1 and a WRKY3 transcription factor by screening a cDNA library. SnRK1 interacts with WRKY3 in yeast, as confirmed by pull-down and luciferase complementation assays. Förster resonance energy transfer combined with noninvasive fluorescence lifetime imaging analysis indicates that the interaction occurs in the barley nucleus. Transient expression and virus-induced gene silencing analyses indicate that WRKY3 acts as a repressor of disease resistance to the Bgh fungus. Barley plants overexpressing WRKY3 have enhanced fungal microcolony formation and sporulation. Phosphorylation assays show that SnRK1 phosphorylates WRKY3 mainly at Ser83 and Ser112 to destabilize the repressor, and WRKY3 non-phosphorylation-null mutants at these two sites are more stable than the wild-type protein. SnRK1-overexpressing barley plants display enhanced disease resistance to Bgh. Transient expression of SnRK1 reduces fungal haustorium formation in barley cells, which probably requires SnRK1 nuclear localization and kinase activity. Together, these findings suggest that SnRK1 is directly involved in plant immunity through phosphorylation and destabilization of the WRKY3 repressor, revealing a new regulatory mechanism of immune derepression in plants.
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- Xinyun Han
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Beijing 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Corresponding author
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Schaefer LK, Parlange F, Buchmann G, Jung E, Wehrli A, Herren G, Müller MC, Stehlin J, Schmid R, Wicker T, Keller B, Bourras S. Cross-Kingdom RNAi of Pathogen Effectors Leads to Quantitative Adult Plant Resistance in Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:253. [PMID: 32211008 PMCID: PMC7076181 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Cross-kingdom RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process allowing plants to transfer small regulatory RNAs to invading pathogens to trigger the silencing of target virulence genes. Transient assays in cereal powdery mildews suggest that silencing of one or two effectors could lead to near loss of virulence, but evidence from stable RNAi lines is lacking. We established transient host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) in wheat, and demonstrate that targeting an essential housekeeping gene in the wheat powdery mildew pathogen (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici) results in significant reduction of virulence at an early stage of infection. We generated stable transgenic RNAi wheat lines encoding a HIGS construct simultaneously silencing three B.g. tritici effectors including SvrPm3 a1/f1 , a virulence factor involved in the suppression of the Pm3 powdery mildew resistance gene. We show that all targeted effectors are effectively downregulated by HIGS, resulting in reduced fungal virulence on adult wheat plants. Our findings demonstrate that stable HIGS of effector genes can lead to quantitative gain of resistance without major pleiotropic effects in wheat.
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Division of Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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Laroche A, Frick M, Graf RJ, Larsen J, Laurie JD. Pyramiding disease resistance genes in elite winter wheat germplasm for Western Canada. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2019.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Wang Q, Sun G, Ren X, Du B, Cheng Y, Wang Y, Li C, Sun D. Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Grain Size and Weight in Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) by QTL and Comparative Genetic Analyses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:469. [PMID: 31105718 PMCID: PMC6491919 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Grain size and weight are crucial components of barley yield and quality and are the target characteristics of domestication and modern breeding. Despite this, little is known about the genetic and molecular mechanisms of grain size and weight in barley. Here, we evaluated nine traits determining grain size and weight, including thousand grain weight (Tgw), grain length (Gl), grain width (Gw), grain length-width ratio (Lwr), grain area (Ga), grain perimeter (Gp), grain diameter (Gd), grain roundness (Gr), and factor form density (Ffd), in a double haploid (DH) population for three consecutive years. Using five mapping methods, we successfully identified 60 reliable QTLs and 27 hotspot regions that distributed on all chromosomes except 6H which controls the nine traits of grain size and weight. Moreover, we also identified 164 barley orthologs of 112 grain size/weight genes from rice, maize, wheat and 38 barley genes that affect grain yield. A total of 45 barley genes or orthologs were identified as potential candidate genes for barley grain size and weight, including 12, 20, 9, and 4 genes or orthologs for barley, rice, maize, and wheat, respectively. Importantly, 20 of them were located in the 14 QTL hotspot regions on chromosome 1H, 2H, 3H, 5H, and 7H, which controls barley grain size and weight. These results indicated that grain size/weight genes of other cereal species might have the same or similar functions in barley. Our findings provide new insights into the understanding of the genetic basis of grain size and weight in barley, and new information to facilitate high-yield breeding in barley. The function of these potential candidate genes identified in this study are worth exploring and studying in detail.
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- Qifei Wang
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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Maekawa T, Kracher B, Saur IML, Yoshikawa-Maekawa M, Kellner R, Pankin A, von Korff M, Schulze-Lefert P. Subfamily-Specific Specialization of RGH1/MLA Immune Receptors in Wild Barley. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2019; 32:107-119. [PMID: 30295580 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-07-18-0186-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The barley disease resistance (R) gene locus mildew locus A (Mla) provides isolate-specific resistance against the powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis hordei and has been introgressed into modern cultivars from diverse germplasms, including the wild relative Hordeum spontaneum. Known Mla disease resistance specificities to B. graminis hordei appear to encode allelic variants of the R gene homolog 1 (RGH1) family of nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. Here, we sequenced and assembled the transcriptomes of 50 H. spontaneum accessions representing nine populations distributed throughout the Fertile Crescent. The assembled Mla transcripts exhibited rich sequence diversity, linked neither to geographic origin nor population structure, and could be grouped into two similar-sized subfamilies based on two major N-terminal coiled-coil (CC) signaling domains that are both capable of eliciting cell death. The presence of positively selected sites located mainly in the C-terminal leucine-rich repeats of both MLA subfamilies, together with the fact that both CC signaling domains mediate cell death, implies that the two subfamilies are actively maintained in the population. Unexpectedly, known MLA receptor variants that confer B. graminis hordei resistance belong exclusively to one subfamily. Thus, signaling domain divergence, potentially as adaptation to distinct pathogen populations, is an evolutionary signature of functional diversification of an immune receptor. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license .
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- Takaki Maekawa
- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
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- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
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- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
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- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
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- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
- 2 Institute of Plant Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-University and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; and
- 2 Institute of Plant Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-University and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Keller B, Wicker T, Krattinger SG. Advances in Wheat and Pathogen Genomics: Implications for Disease Control. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2018; 56:67-87. [PMID: 30149791 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080516-035419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The gene pool of wheat and its wild and domesticated relatives contains a plethora of resistance genes that can be exploited to make wheat more resilient to pathogens. Only a few of these genes have been isolated and studied at the molecular level. In recent years, we have seen a shift from classical breeding to genomics-assisted breeding, which makes use of the enormous advancements in DNA sequencing and high-throughput molecular marker technologies for wheat improvement. These genomic advancements have the potential to transform wheat breeding in the near future and to significantly increase the speed and precision at which new cultivars can be bred. This review highlights the genomic improvements that have been made in wheat and its pathogens over the past years and discusses their implications for disease-resistance breeding.
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- Beat Keller
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland;
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland;
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- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia;
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Whole-Genome Resequencing of a Cucumber Chromosome Segment Substitution Line and Its Recurrent Parent to Identify Candidate Genes Governing Powdery Mildew Resistance. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0164469. [PMID: 27764118 PMCID: PMC5072683 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Cucumber is an economically important vegetable crop worldwide. Powdery mildew (PM) is one of the most severe diseases that can affect cucumber crops. There have been several research efforts to isolate PM resistance genes for breeding PM-resistant cucumber. In the present study, we used a chromosome segment substitution line, SSL508-28, which carried PM resistance genes from the donor parent, JIN5-508, through twelve generations of backcrossing with a PM-susceptible inbred line, D8. We performed whole-genome resequencing of SSL508-28 and D8 to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and insertions and deletions (indels). When compared against the reference genome of the inbred cucumber line 9930, a total of 468,616 SNPs and 67,259 indels were identified in SSL508-28, and 537,352 SNPs and 91,698 indels were identified in D8. Of these, 3,014 non-synonymous SNPs and 226 frameshift indels in SSL508-28, and 3,104 non-synonymous SNPs and 251 frameshift indels in D8, were identified. Bioinformatics analysis of these variations revealed a total of 15,682 SNPs and 6,262 indels between SSL508-28 and D8, among which 120 non-synonymous SNPs and 30 frameshift indels in 94 genes were detected between SSL508-28 and D8. Finally, out of these 94 genes, five resistance genes with nucleotide-binding sites and leucine-rich repeat domains were selected for qRT-PCR analysis. This revealed an upregulation of two transcripts, Csa2M435460.1 and Csa5M579560.1, in SSL508-28. Furthermore, the results of qRT-PCR analysis of these two genes in ten PM resistant and ten PM susceptible cucumber lines showed that when exposed to PM, Csa2M435460.1 and Csa5M579560.1 exhibited a higher expression level of resistant lines than susceptible lines. This indicates that Csa2M435460.1 and Csa5M579560.1 are candidate genes for PM resistance in cucumber. In addition, the non-synonymous SNPs in Csa2M435460.1 and Csa5M579560.1, identified in SSL508-28 and D8, might be the key to high PM-resistance in SSL508-28.
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Krattinger SG, Keller B. Molecular genetics and evolution of disease resistance in cereals. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:320-32. [PMID: 27427289 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Contents 320 I. 320 II. 321 III. 321 IV. 322 V. 324 VI. 328 VII. 329 330 References 330 SUMMARY: Cereal crops produce a large part of the globally consumed food and feed. Because of the constant presence of devastating pathogens, the molecular characterization of disease resistance is a major research area and highly relevant for breeding. There has been recent and accelerating progress in the understanding of three distinct resistance mechanisms in cereals: resistance conferred by plasma membrane-localized receptor proteins; race-specific resistance conferred by intracellular immune receptors; and quantitative disease resistance. Intracellular immune receptors provide a particularly rich source for evolutionary studies, and have, for example, resulted in the recent discovery of a novel detection mechanism based on integrated decoy domains. Evolutionary studies have also revealed the origins of active resistance genes in both wild progenitors of today's cereals as well as in cultivated forms. In addition, independent evolution of orthologous genes in related cereals has resulted in resistance to different pathogen species. Quantitative resistance genes have been best characterized in wheat. The quantitative resistance genes identified so far in wheat encode transporter proteins or unusual kinase proteins. The recent discoveries in these three different resistance mechanisms have contributed to the basic molecular understanding of cereal immunity against pathogens and have suggested novel applications for resistance breeding.
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- Simon G Krattinger
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Cesari S, Moore J, Chen C, Webb D, Periyannan S, Mago R, Bernoux M, Lagudah ES, Dodds PN. Cytosolic activation of cell death and stem rust resistance by cereal MLA-family CC-NLR proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:10204-9. [PMID: 27555587 PMCID: PMC5018743 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605483113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Plants possess intracellular immune receptors designated "nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat" (NLR) proteins that translate pathogen-specific recognition into disease-resistance signaling. The wheat immune receptors Sr33 and Sr50 belong to the class of coiled-coil (CC) NLRs. They confer resistance against a broad spectrum of field isolates of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, including the Ug99 lineage, and are homologs of the barley powdery mildew-resistance protein MLA10. Here, we show that, similarly to MLA10, the Sr33 and Sr50 CC domains are sufficient to induce cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana Autoactive CC domains and full-length Sr33 and Sr50 proteins self-associate in planta In contrast, truncated CC domains equivalent in size to an MLA10 fragment for which a crystal structure was previously determined fail to induce cell death and do not self-associate. Mutations in the truncated region also abolish self-association and cell-death signaling. Analysis of Sr33 and Sr50 CC domains fused to YFP and either nuclear localization or nuclear export signals in N benthamiana showed that cell-death induction occurs in the cytosol. In stable transgenic wheat plants, full-length Sr33 proteins targeted to the cytosol provided rust resistance, whereas nuclear-targeted Sr33 was not functional. These data are consistent with CC-mediated induction of both cell-death signaling and stem rust resistance in the cytosolic compartment, whereas previous research had suggested that MLA10-mediated cell-death and disease resistance signaling occur independently, in the cytosol and nucleus, respectively.
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- Stella Cesari
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Advanced Microscopy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia;
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Veena M, Melvin P, Prabhu SA, Shailasree S, Shetty HS, Kini KR. Molecular cloning of a coiled-coil-nucleotide-binding-site-leucine-rich repeat gene from pearl millet and its expression pattern in response to the downy mildew pathogen. Mol Biol Rep 2016; 43:117-28. [PMID: 26842722 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-016-3944-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Downy mildew caused by Sclerospora graminicola is a devastating disease of pearl millet. Based on candidate gene approach, a set of 22 resistance gene analogues were identified. The clone RGPM 301 (AY117410) containing a partial sequence shared 83% similarity to rice R-proteins. A full-length R-gene RGA RGPM 301 of 3552 bp with 2979 bp open reading frame encoding 992 amino acids was isolated by the degenerate primers and rapid amplification of cDNA ends polymerase chain reaction (RACE-PCR) approach. It had a molecular mass of 113.96 kDa and isoelectric point (pI) of 8.71. The sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis grouped it to a non-TIR NBS LRR group. The quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis revealed higher accumulation of the transcripts following inoculation with S. graminicola in the resistant cultivar (IP18296) compared to susceptible cultivar (7042S). Further, significant induction in the transcript levels were observed when treated with abiotic elicitor β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) and biotic elicitor Pseudomonas fluorescens. Exogenous application of phytohormones jasmonic acid or salicylic acid also up-regulated the expression levels of RGA RGPM 301. The treatment of cultivar IP18296 with mitogen-activated protein kinase (MPK) inhibitors (PD98059 and U0126) suppressed the levels of RGA RGPM 301. A 3.5 kb RGA RGPM 301 which is a non-TIR NBS-LRR protein was isolated from pearl millet and its up-regulation during downy mildew interaction was demonstrated by qRT-PCR. These studies indicate a role for this RGA in pearl millet downy mildew interaction.
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- Mariswamy Veena
- Department of Studies in Biotechnology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, 570 006, India
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- Department of Studies in Biotechnology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, 570 006, India
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- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Institution of Excellence, Vijnana Bhavan, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, 570 006, India.
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- Department of Studies in Biotechnology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, 570 006, India
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- Department of Studies in Biotechnology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, 570 006, India
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Mago R, Zhang P, Vautrin S, Šimková H, Bansal U, Luo MC, Rouse M, Karaoglu H, Periyannan S, Kolmer J, Jin Y, Ayliffe MA, Bariana H, Park RF, McIntosh R, Doležel J, Bergès H, Spielmeyer W, Lagudah ES, Ellis JG, Dodds PN. The wheat Sr50 gene reveals rich diversity at a cereal disease resistance locus. NATURE PLANTS 2015; 1:15186. [PMID: 27251721 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/27/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We identify the wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr50 (using physical mapping, mutation and complementation) as homologous to barley Mla, encoding a coiled-coil nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (CC-NB-LRR) protein. We show that Sr50 confers a unique resistance specificity different from Sr31 and other genes on rye chromosome 1RS, and is effective against the broadly virulent Ug99 race lineage. Extensive haplotype diversity at the rye Sr50 locus holds promise for mining effective resistance genes.
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- Rohit Mago
- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- INRA - CNRGV, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge - Auzeville, CS 52627, Castanet Tolosan Cedex 31326, France
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc CZ-78371, Czech Republic
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- USDA, ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- USDA, ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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- USDA, ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Private Bag 4011, Narellan, New South Wales 2567, Australia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc CZ-78371, Czech Republic
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- INRA - CNRGV, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge - Auzeville, CS 52627, Castanet Tolosan Cedex 31326, France
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- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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Xia C, Zhang X, Christensen MJ, Nan Z, Li C. Epichloë endophyte affects the ability of powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis) to colonise drunken horse grass (Achnatherum inebrians). FUNGAL ECOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2015.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Singh RP, Hodson DP, Jin Y, Lagudah ES, Ayliffe MA, Bhavani S, Rouse MN, Pretorius ZA, Szabo LJ, Huerta-Espino J, Basnet BR, Lan C, Hovmøller MS. Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2015; 105:872-84. [PMID: 26120730 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-01-15-0030-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to a large number of resistance genes found in current widely grown wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties and germplasm, leading to its potential for rapid spread and evolution. Since its initial detection, variants of the Ug99 lineage of stem rust have been discovered in Eastern and Southern African countries, Yemen, Iran, and Egypt. To date, eight races belonging to the Ug99 lineage are known. Increased pathogen monitoring activities have led to the identification of other races in Africa and Asia with additional virulence to commercially important resistance genes. This has led to localized but severe stem rust epidemics becoming common once again in East Africa due to the breakdown of race-specific resistance gene SrTmp, which was deployed recently in the 'Digalu' and 'Robin' varieties in Ethiopia and Kenya, respectively. Enhanced research in the last decade under the umbrella of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative has identified various race-specific resistance genes that can be utilized, preferably in combinations, to develop resistant varieties. Research and development of improved wheat germplasm with complex adult plant resistance (APR) based on multiple slow-rusting genes has also progressed. Once only the Sr2 gene was known to confer slow rusting APR; now, four more genes-Sr55, Sr56, Sr57, and Sr58-have been characterized and additional quantitative trait loci identified. Cloning of some rust resistance genes opens new perspectives on rust control in the future through the development of multiple resistance gene cassettes. However, at present, disease-surveillance-based chemical control, large-scale deployment of new varieties with multiple race-specific genes or adequate levels of APR, and reducing the cultivation of susceptible varieties in rust hot-spot areas remains the best stem rust management strategy.
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- Ravi P Singh
- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- First, eleventh, and twelfth authors: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal, 6-641, 06600, Mexico, D.F.; second author: CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; third, seventh, and ninth authors: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; fourth and fifth authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; sixth author: CIMMYT, ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya; eighth author: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; tenth author: Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230, Chapingo, Edo de México, México; and thirteenth author: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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Zhang Q, Berkey R, Pan Z, Wang W, Zhang Y, Ma X, King H, Xiao S. Dominant negative RPW8.2 fusion proteins reveal the importance of haustorium-oriented protein trafficking for resistance against powdery mildew in Arabidopsis. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2015; 10:e989766. [PMID: 25830634 PMCID: PMC4623256 DOI: 10.4161/15592324.2014.989766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Powdery mildew fungi form feeding structures called haustoria inside epidermal cells of host plants to extract photosynthates for their epiphytic growth and reproduction. The haustorium is encased by an interfacial membrane termed the extrahaustorial membrane (EHM). The atypical resistance protein RPW8.2 from Arabidopsis is specifically targeted to the EHM where RPW8.2 activates haustorium-targeted (thus broad-spectrum) resistance against powdery mildew fungi. EHM-specific localization of RPW8.2 suggests the existence of an EHM-oriented protein/membrane trafficking pathway during EHM biogenesis. However, the importance of this specific trafficking pathway for host defense has not been evaluated via a genetic approach without affecting other trafficking pathways. Here, we report that expression of EHM-oriented, nonfunctional RPW8.2 chimeric proteins exerts dominant negative effect over functional RPW8.2 and potentially over other EHM-localized defense proteins, thereby compromising both RPW8.2-mediated and basal resistance to powdery mildew. Thus, our results highlight the importance of the EHM-oriented protein/membrane trafficking pathway for host resistance against haustorium-forming pathogens such as powdery mildew fungi.
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- Qiong Zhang
- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology; College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences; Huazhong Agricultural University; Wuhan, China
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- Rice Research Institute; Sichuan Agricultural University; Chengdu, China
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
- Rice Research Institute; Sichuan Agricultural University; Chengdu, China
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; University of Maryland; Rockville, MD USA
- Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture; University of Maryland; College Park, MD USA
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Liu J, Cheng X, Liu D, Xu W, Wise R, Shen QH. The miR9863 family regulates distinct Mla alleles in barley to attenuate NLR receptor-triggered disease resistance and cell-death signaling. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004755. [PMID: 25502438 PMCID: PMC4263374 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Mla alleles encode coiled-coil (CC), nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) receptors that trigger isolate-specific immune responses against the powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh). How Mla or NB-LRR genes in grass species are regulated at post-transcriptional level is not clear. The microRNA family, miR9863, comprises four members that differentially regulate distinct Mla alleles in barley. We show that miR9863 members guide the cleavage of Mla1 transcripts in barley, and block or reduce the accumulation of MLA1 protein in the heterologous Nicotiana benthamiana expression system. Regulation specificity is determined by variation in a unique single-nucleotide-polymorphism (SNP) in mature miR9863 family members and two SNPs in the Mla miR9863-binding site that separates these alleles into three groups. Further, we demonstrate that 22-nt miR9863s trigger the biogenesis of 21-nt phased siRNAs (phasiRNAs) and together these sRNAs form a feed-forward regulation network for repressing the expression of group I Mla alleles. Overexpression of miR9863 members specifically attenuates MLA1, but not MLA10-triggered disease resistance and cell-death signaling. We propose a key role of the miR9863 family in dampening immune response signaling triggered by a group of MLA immune receptors in barley. Plants rely on cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors to sense pathogen invasion and to mediate defense responses. However, uncontrolled activation of immune responses is harmful to plant growth and development. Small RNAs have recently been shown to fine-tune the expression of intracellular immune receptors and contribute to the regulation of defense signaling in dicot plants, while similar processes have not been well documented in monocot grain crops, such as barley and wheat. Here, we show that, in barley, some members of the miR9863 family target a subset of Mla alleles that confer race-specific disease resistance to the powdery mildew fungus. These miRNAs act on Mla transcripts by cleavage and translational repression. Production of a type of trans-acting small RNAs, designated as phasiRNAs, enhances the effects of miRNA regulation on Mla targets. We propose that Mla-mediated immune signaling is fine-tuned by the miRNAs at later stage of MLA activation to avoid overloading of immune responses in barley cells.
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- Jie Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Centre for Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Centre for Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Centre for Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Centre for Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Xu W, Meng Y, Wise RP. Mla- and Rom1-mediated control of microRNA398 and chloroplast copper/zinc superoxide dismutase regulates cell death in response to the barley powdery mildew fungus. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2014; 201:1396-1412. [PMID: 24246006 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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• Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Mildew resistance locus a (Mla) confers allele-specific interactions with natural variants of the ascomycete fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh), the causal agent of powdery mildew disease. Significant reprogramming of Mla-mediated gene expression occurs upon infection by this obligate biotrophic pathogen. • We utilized a proteomics-based approach, combined with barley mla, required for Mla12 resistance1 (rar1), and restoration of Mla resistance1 (rom1) mutants, to identify components of Mla-directed signaling. • Loss-of-function mutations in Mla and Rar1 both resulted in the reduced accumulation of chloroplast copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (HvSOD1), whereas loss of function in Rom1 re-established HvSOD1 levels. In addition, both Mla and Rom1 negatively regulated hvu-microRNA398 (hvu-miR398), and up-regulation of miR398 was coupled to reduced HvSOD1 expression. Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)-mediated over-expression of both barley and Arabidopsis miR398 repressed accumulation of HvSOD1, and BSMV-induced gene silencing of HvSod1 impeded Mla-triggered H₂O₂ and hypersensitive reaction (HR) at barley-Bgh interaction sites. • These data indicate that Mla- and Rom1-regulated hvu-miR398 represses HvSOD1 accumulation, influencing effector-induced HR in response to the powdery mildew fungus.
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- Weihui Xu
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1020, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1020, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1020, USA
- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1020, USA
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Hurni S, Brunner S, Buchmann G, Herren G, Jordan T, Krukowski P, Wicker T, Yahiaoui N, Mago R, Keller B. Rye Pm8 and wheat Pm3 are orthologous genes and show evolutionary conservation of resistance function against powdery mildew. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:957-69. [PMID: 24124925 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The improvement of wheat through breeding has relied strongly on the use of genetic material from related wild and domesticated grass species. The 1RS chromosome arm from rye was introgressed into wheat and crossed into many wheat lines, as it improves yield and fungal disease resistance. Pm8 is a powdery mildew resistance gene on 1RS which, after widespread agricultural cultivation, is now widely overcome by adapted mildew races. Here we show by homology-based cloning and subsequent physical and genetic mapping that Pm8 is the rye orthologue of the Pm3 allelic series of mildew resistance genes in wheat. The cloned gene was functionally validated as Pm8 by transient, single-cell expression analysis and stable transformation. Sequence analysis revealed a complex mosaic of ancient haplotypes among Pm3- and Pm8-like genes from different members of the Triticeae. These results show that the two genes have evolved independently after the divergence of the species 7.5 million years ago and kept their function in mildew resistance. During this long time span the co-evolving pathogens have not overcome these genes, which is in strong contrast to the breakdown of Pm8 resistance since its introduction into commercial wheat 70 years ago. Sequence comparison revealed that evolutionary pressure acted on the same subdomains and sequence features of the two orthologous genes. This suggests that they recognize directly or indirectly the same pathogen effectors that have been conserved in the powdery mildews of wheat and rye.
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- Severine Hurni
- Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008, Zürich, Switzerland
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Chang C, Zhang L, Shen QH. Partitioning, repressing and derepressing: dynamic regulations in MLA immune receptor triggered defense signaling. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2013; 4:396. [PMID: 24115952 PMCID: PMC3792363 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Plants and animals have evolved intracellular nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-containing immune receptors (NLRs) to perceive non-self and trigger immune responses. Plant NLRs detect strain-specific pathogen effectors and activate immune signaling leading to extensive transcriptional reprogramming and termination of pathogen infection. Here we review the recent findings in barley MLA immune receptor mediated immune responses against the barley powdery mildew fungus. We focus on nucleocytoplasmic partitioning of immune receptor, bifurcation of immune signaling, transcriptional repression and derepression connecting receptor activation to immune responses. We also discuss similar findings from other plant NLRs where appropriate.
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- Cheng Chang
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
- *Correspondence: Qian-Hua Shen, State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China e-mail:
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Identification and phylogenetic analysis of a CC-NBS-LRR encoding gene assigned on chromosome 7B of wheat. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:15330-47. [PMID: 23887654 PMCID: PMC3759862 DOI: 10.3390/ijms140815330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2013] [Revised: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Hexaploid wheat displays limited genetic variation. As a direct A and B genome donor of hexaploid wheat, tetraploid wheat represents an important gene pool for cultivated bread wheat. Many disease resistant genes express conserved domains of the nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeats (NBS-LRR). In this study, we isolated a CC-NBS-LRR gene locating on chromosome 7B from durum wheat variety Italy 363, and designated it TdRGA-7Ba. Its open reading frame was 4014 bp, encoding a 1337 amino acid protein with a complete NBS domain and 18 LRR repeats, sharing 44.7% identity with the PM3B protein. TdRGA-7Ba expression was continuously seen at low levels and was highest in leaves. TdRGA-7Ba has another allele TdRGA-7Bb with a 4 bp deletion at position +1892 in other cultivars of tetraploid wheat. In Ae. speltoides, as a B genome progenitor, both TdRGA-7Ba and TdRGA-7Bb were detected. In all six species of hexaploid wheats (AABBDD), only TdRGA-7Bb existed. Phylogenic analysis showed that all TdRGA-7Bb type genes were grouped in one sub-branch. We speculate that TdRGA-7Bb was derived from a TdRGA-7Ba mutation, and it happened in Ae. speltoides. Both types of TdRGA-7B participated in tetraploid wheat formation. However, only the TdRGA-7Bb was retained in hexaploid wheat.
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Periyannan S, Moore J, Ayliffe M, Bansal U, Wang X, Huang L, Deal K, Luo M, Kong X, Bariana H, Mago R, McIntosh R, Dodds P, Dvorak J, Lagudah E. The gene Sr33, an ortholog of barley Mla genes, encodes resistance to wheat stem rust race Ug99. Science 2013; 341:786-8. [PMID: 23811228 DOI: 10.1126/science.1239028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Wheat stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, afflicts bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). New virulent races collectively referred to as "Ug99" have emerged, which threaten global wheat production. The wheat gene Sr33, introgressed from the wild relative Aegilops tauschii into bread wheat, confers resistance to diverse stem rust races, including the Ug99 race group. We cloned Sr33, which encodes a coiled-coil, nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat protein. Sr33 is orthologous to the barley (Hordeum vulgare) Mla mildew resistance genes that confer resistance to Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei. The wheat Sr33 gene functions independently of RAR1, SGT1, and HSP90 chaperones. Haplotype analysis from diverse collections of Ae. tauschii placed the origin of Sr33 resistance near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.
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- Sambasivam Periyannan
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Balmer D, Planchamp C, Mauch-Mani B. On the move: induced resistance in monocots. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:1249-61. [PMID: 23028020 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Although plants possess an arsenal of constitutive defences such as structural barriers and preformed antimicrobial defences, many attackers are able to overcome the pre-existing defence layers. In response, a range of inducible plant defences is set up to battle these pathogens. These mechanisms, commonly integrated as induced resistance (IR), control pathogens and pests by the activation of specific defence pathways. IR mechanisms have been extensively studied in the Dicotyledoneae, whereas knowledge of IR in monocotyledonous plants, including the globally important graminaceous crop plants, is elusive. Considering the potential of IR for sustainable agriculture and the recent advances in monocot genomics and biotechnology, IR in monocots is an emerging research field. In the following, current facts and trends concerning basal immunity, and systemic acquired/induced systemic resistance in the defence of monocots against pathogens and herbivores will be summarized.
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- Dirk Balmer
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Chang C, Yu D, Jiao J, Jing S, Schulze-Lefert P, Shen QH. Barley MLA immune receptors directly interfere with antagonistically acting transcription factors to initiate disease resistance signaling. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:1158-73. [PMID: 23532068 PMCID: PMC3634683 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.109942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2013] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The nucleotide binding domain and Leucine-rich repeat (NLR)-containing proteins in plants and animals mediate pathogen sensing inside host cells and mount innate immune responses against microbial pathogens. The barley (Hordeum vulgare) mildew A (MLA) locus encodes coiled-coil (CC)-type NLRs mediating disease resistance against the powdery mildew pathogen Blumeria graminis. Here, we report direct interactions between MLA and two antagonistically acting transcription factors, MYB6 and WRKY1. The N-terminal CC signaling domain of MLA interacts with MYB6 to stimulate its DNA binding activity. MYB6 functions as a positive regulator of basal and MLA-mediated immunity responses to B. graminis. MYB6 DNA binding is antagonized by direct association with WRKY1 repressor, which in turn also interacts with the MLA CC domain. The activated form of full-length MLA10 receptor is needed to release MYB6 activator from WRKY1 repression and to stimulate MYB6-dependent gene expression. This implies that, while sequestered by the WRKY1 repressor in the presence of the resting immune receptor, MYB6 acts as an immediate and positive postactivation signaling component of the active state of MLA during transcriptional reprogramming for innate immune responses.
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- Cheng Chang
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne 50829, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Address correspondence to
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Sekine KT, Tomita R, Takeuchi S, Atsumi G, Saitoh H, Mizumoto H, Kiba A, Yamaoka N, Nishiguchi M, Hikichi Y, Kobayashi K. Functional differentiation in the leucine-rich repeat domains of closely related plant virus-resistance proteins that recognize common avr proteins. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2012; 25:1219-29. [PMID: 22690804 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-11-11-0289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The N' gene of Nicotiana sylvestris and L genes of Capsicum plants confer the resistance response accompanying the hypersensitive response (HR) elicited by tobamovirus coat proteins (CP) but with different viral specificities. Here, we report the identification of the N' gene. We amplified and cloned an N' candidate using polymerase chain reaction primers designed from L gene sequences. The N' candidate gene was a single 4143 base pairs fragment encoding a coiled-coil nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-type resistance protein of 1,380 amino acids. The candidate gene induced the HR in response to the coexpression of tobamovirus CP with the identical specificity as reported for N'. Analysis of N'-containing and tobamovirus-susceptible N. tabacum accessions supported the hypothesis that the candidate is the N' gene itself. Chimera analysis between N' and L(3) revealed that their LRR domains determine the spectrum of their tobamovirus CP recognition. Deletion and mutation analyses of N' and L(3) revealed that the conserved sequences in their C-terminal regions have important roles but contribute differentially to the recognition of common avirulence proteins. The results collectively suggest that Nicotiana N' and Capsicum L genes, which most likely evolved from a common ancestor, differentiated in their recognition specificity through changes in the structural requirements for LRR function.
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Di Gaspero G, Copetti D, Coleman C, Castellarin SD, Eibach R, Kozma P, Lacombe T, Gambetta G, Zvyagin A, Cindrić P, Kovács L, Morgante M, Testolin R. Selective sweep at the Rpv3 locus during grapevine breeding for downy mildew resistance. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2012; 124:277-86. [PMID: 21947344 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-011-1703-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2011] [Accepted: 09/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The Rpv3 locus is a major determinant of downy mildew resistance in grapevine (Vitis spp.). A selective sweep at this locus was revealed by the DNA genotyping of 580 grapevines, which include a highly diverse set of 265 European varieties that predated the spread of North American mildews, 82 accessions of wild species, and 233 registered breeding lines with North American ancestry produced in the past 150 years. Artificial hybridisation and subsequent phenotypic selection favoured a few Rpv3 haplotypes that were introgressed from wild vines and retained in released varieties. Seven conserved haplotypes in five descent groups of resistant varieties were traced back to their founders: (1) 'Munson', a cross between two of Hermann Jaeger's selections of V. rupestris and V. lincecumii made in the early 1880s in Missouri, (2) V. rupestris 'Ganzin', first utilised for breeding in 1879 by Victor Ganzin in France, (3) 'Noah', selected in 1869 from intermingled accessions of V. riparia and V. labrusca by Otto Wasserzieher in Illinois, (4) 'Bayard', a V. rupestris × V. labrusca offspring generated in 1882 by George Couderc in France, and (5) a wild form closely related to V. rupestris accessions in the Midwestern United States and introgressed into 'Seibel 4614' in the 1880s by Albert Seibel in France. Persistence of these Rpv3 haplotypes across many of the varieties generated by human intervention indicates that a handful of vines with prominent resistance have laid the foundation for modern grape breeding. A rampant hot spot of NB-LRR genes at the Rpv3 locus has provided a distinctive advantage for the adaptation of native North American grapevines to withstand downy mildew. The coexistence of multiple resistance alleles or paralogues in the same chromosomal region but in different haplotypes counteracts efforts to pyramidise them in a diploid individual via conventional breeding.
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- Gabriele Di Gaspero
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, University of Udine, via delle scienze 208, 33100, Udine, Italy.
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Mayer KF, Martis M, Hedley PE, Šimková H, Liu H, Morris JA, Steuernagel B, Taudien S, Roessner S, Gundlach H, Kubaláková M, Suchánková P, Murat F, Felder M, Nussbaumer T, Graner A, Salse J, Endo T, Sakai H, Tanaka T, Itoh T, Sato K, Platzer M, Matsumoto T, Scholz U, Doležel J, Waugh R, Stein N. Unlocking the barley genome by chromosomal and comparative genomics. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:1249-63. [PMID: 21467582 PMCID: PMC3101540 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.082537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2010] [Revised: 03/10/2011] [Accepted: 03/18/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We used a novel approach that incorporated chromosome sorting, next-generation sequencing, array hybridization, and systematic exploitation of conserved synteny with model grasses to assign ~86% of the estimated ~32,000 barley (Hordeum vulgare) genes to individual chromosome arms. Using a series of bioinformatically constructed genome zippers that integrate gene indices of rice (Oryza sativa), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), and Brachypodium distachyon in a conserved synteny model, we were able to assemble 21,766 barley genes in a putative linear order. We show that the barley (H) genome displays a mosaic of structural similarity to hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) A, B, and D subgenomes and that orthologous genes in different grasses exhibit signatures of positive selection in different lineages. We present an ordered, information-rich scaffold of the barley genome that provides a valuable and robust framework for the development of novel strategies in cereal breeding.
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- Klaus F.X. Mayer
- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland DD25DA, United Kingdom
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, 77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland DD25DA, United Kingdom
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland DD25DA, United Kingdom
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Age Research-Fritz Lipmann Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, 77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, 77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Clermont-Ferrand, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Blaise Pascal 1095, Amélioration et Santé des Plantes, Domaine de Crouelle, Clermont-Ferrand 63100, France
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- Leibniz Institute for Age Research-Fritz Lipmann Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Clermont-Ferrand, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Blaise Pascal 1095, Amélioration et Santé des Plantes, Domaine de Crouelle, Clermont-Ferrand 63100, France
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- Kyoto University, Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan
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- Okayama University, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Kurashiki 710-0046, Japan
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- Leibniz Institute for Age Research-Fritz Lipmann Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, 77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland DD25DA, United Kingdom
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Brown JKM, Tellier A. Plant-parasite coevolution: bridging the gap between genetics and ecology. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2011; 49:345-67. [PMID: 21513455 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-072910-095301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
We review current ideas about coevolution of plants and parasites, particularly processes that generate genetic diversity. Frequencies of host resistance and parasite virulence alleles that interact in gene-for-gene (GFG) relationships coevolve in the familiar boom-and-bust cycle, in which resistance is selected when virulence is rare, and virulence is selected when resistance is common. The cycle can result in stable polymorphism when diverse ecological and epidemiological factors cause negative direct frequency-dependent selection (ndFDS) on host resistance, parasite virulence, or both, such that the benefit of a trait to fitness declines as its frequency increases. Polymorphism can also be stabilized by overdominance, when heterozygous hosts have greater resistance than homozygotes to diverse pathogens. Genetic diversity can also persist in the form of statistical polymorphism, sustained by random processes acting on gene frequencies and population size. Stable polymorphism allows alleles to be long-lived and genetic variation to be detectable in natural populations. In agriculture, many of the factors promoting stability in host-parasite interactions have been lost, leading to arms races of host defenses and parasite effectors.
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Affiliation(s)
- James K M Brown
- Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Center, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
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