A major challenge in evolutionary biology and plant breeding is to identify the genetic basis
of complex quantitative traits, including those that contribute to adaptive variation. Here we …

Molecular plant pathology has focused on studying large-effect qualitative resistance loci
that predominantly function in detecting pathogens and/or transmitting signals resulting from …

Infectious disease is both a major force of selection in nature and a prime cause of yield loss
in agriculture. In plants, disease resistance is often conferred by nucleotide-binding leucine …

Arabidopsis thaliana is native to Eurasia and is naturalized across the world. Its ability to be
easily propagated and its high phenotypic variability make it an ideal model system for …

Background Genome-wide association (GWA) is gaining popularity as a means to study the
architecture of complex quantitative traits, partially due to the improvement of high …

Although allelic diversity of genes has been reported to play important roles in different
physiological processes, information on allelic diversity of defense-responsive genes in host …

With the improvement and decline in cost of high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping
technologies, genome-wide association (GWA) studies are fast becoming a preferred …

Plant innate immunity relies on nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) that
recognize pathogen-derived molecules and activate downstream signaling pathways. We …

Studies on resistance gene function and evolution lie at the confluence of structural and
molecular biology, genetics, and plant breeding. However, knowledge from these disparate …

Jasmonates are phytohormones that modulate a wide spectrum of plant physiological
processes, especially defense against herbivores and necrotrophs. The molecular …