Disease resistance gene analogs (RGAs) in plants

MK Sekhwal, P Li, I Lam, X Wang, S Cloutier… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Plants have developed effective mechanisms to recognize and respond to infections caused
by pathogens. Plant resistance gene analogs (RGAs), as resistance (R) gene candidates …

Plant NBS-LRR proteins: adaptable guards

L McHale, X Tan, P Koehl, RW Michelmore - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
The majority of disease resistance genes in plants encode nucleotide-binding site leucine-
rich repeat (NBS-LRR) proteins. This large family is encoded by hundreds of diverse genes …

Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

B Chalhoub, F Denoeud, S Liu, IAP Parkin, H Tang… - science, 2014 - science.org
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed~ 7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as …

The Rice Resistance Protein Pair RGA4/RGA5 Recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors AVR-Pia and AVR1-CO39 by Direct Binding

S Cesari, G Thilliez, C Ribot, V Chalvon, C Michel… - The Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Resistance (R) proteins recognize pathogen avirulence (Avr) proteins by direct or indirect
binding and are multidomain proteins generally carrying a nucleotide binding (NB) and a …

Large-scale analyses of angiosperm nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat genes reveal three anciently diverged classes with distinct evolutionary patterns

ZQ Shao, JY Xue, P Wu, YM Zhang, Y Wu… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes make up the largest plant
disease resistance gene family (R genes), with hundreds of copies occurring in individual …

Plant nucleotide binding site–leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes: active guardians in host defense responses

D Marone, MA Russo, G Laidò… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
The most represented group of resistance genes are those of the nucleotide binding site–
leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) class. These genes are very numerous in the plant genome …

The evolution of adaptive immunity

Z Pancer, MD Cooper - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Approximately 500 mya two types of recombinatorial adaptive immune systems appeared in
vertebrates. Jawed vertebrates generate a diverse repertoire of B and T cell antigen …

Large-scale comparative phosphoproteomics identifies conserved phosphorylation sites in plants

H Nakagami, N Sugiyama, K Mochida, A Daudi… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of phosphorylation events and their regulation is crucial to understand
the functional biology of plants. Here, we report a large-scale phosphoproteome analysis in …

A genome-wide meta-analysis of rice blast resistance genes and quantitative trait loci provides new insights into partial and complete resistance

E Ballini, JB Morel, G Droc, A Price… - Molecular Plant …, 2008 - Am Phytopath Society
The completion of the genome sequences of both rice and Magnaporthe oryzae has
strengthened the position of rice blast disease as a model to study plant–pathogen …

Identification and distribution of the NBS-LRR gene family in the Cassava genome

R Lozano, MT Hamblin, S Prochnik, JL Jannink - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Plant resistance genes (R genes) exist in large families and usually contain
both a nucleotide-binding site domain and a leucine-rich repeat domain, denoted NBS-LRR …