Evolution of plant NLRs: from natural history to precise modifications

J Tamborski, KV Krasileva - Annual review of plant biology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) monitor the plant intracellular
environment for signs of pathogen infection. Several mechanisms of NLR-mediated …

Hypersensitive response: From NLR pathogen recognition to cell death response

RJD Dalio, D Paschoal, GD Arena… - Annals of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A wide range of potentially plant pathogenic microorganisms are naturally present in the
environment. Despite relying only on the innate immune system, plants are able to resist …

The megabase-scale crossover landscape is largely independent of sequence divergence

Q Lian, V Solier, B Walkemeier, S Durand… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Meiotic recombination frequency varies along chromosomes and strongly correlates with
sequence divergence. However, the causal relationship between recombination landscapes …

MSH 2 shapes the meiotic crossover landscape in relation to interhomolog polymorphism in Arabidopsis

AR Blackwell, J Dluzewska… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
During meiosis, DNA double‐strand breaks undergo interhomolog repair to yield crossovers
between homologous chromosomes. To investigate how interhomolog sequence …

The effect of DNA polymorphisms and natural variation on crossover hotspot activity in Arabidopsis hybrids

M Szymanska-Lejman, W Dziegielewski… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In hybrid organisms, genetically divergent homologous chromosomes pair and recombine
during meiosis; however, the effect of specific types of polymorphisms on crossover is poorly …

The N-terminally truncated helper NLR NRG1C antagonizes immunity mediated by its full-length neighbors NRG1A and NRG1B

Z Wu, L Tian, X Liu, W Huang, Y Zhang, X Li - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Both plants and animals utilize nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat immune receptors
(NLRs) to perceive the presence of pathogen-derived molecules and induce immune …

Variation in recombination rate is shaped by domestication and environmental conditions in barley

S Dreissig, M Mascher… - Molecular biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination generates genetic diversity upon which selection can act.
Recombination rates are highly variable between species, populations, individuals, sexes …

Structural variation and DNA methylation shape the centromere-proximal meiotic crossover landscape in Arabidopsis

JB Fernandes, M Naish, Q Lian, R Burns, AJ Tock… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Centromeres load kinetochore complexes onto chromosomes, which mediate
spindle attachment and allow segregation during cell division. Although centromeres …

Natural variation in Arabidopsis responses to Plasmodiophora brassicae reveals an essential role for Resistance to Plasmodiophora brasssicae 1 (RPB1)

JC Ochoa, S Mukhopadhyay, T Bieluszewski… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the identification of clubroot resistance genes in various Brassica crops our
understanding of the genetic basis of immunity to Plasmodiophora brassicae infection in the …

Preferential meiotic chromosome pairing among homologous chromosomes with cryptic sequence variation in tetraploid maize

GT Braz, F Yu, H Zhao, Z Deng, JA Birchler… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Meiotic chromosome pairing between homoeologous chromosomes was reported in many
nascent allopolyploids. Homoeologous pairing is gradually eliminated and replaced by …