Plants have developed a complex defense system against diverse pests and pathogens.
Once pathogens overcome mechanical barriers to infection, plant receptors initiate signaling …

Many plant disease resistance (R) proteins belong to the family of nucleotide-binding-
leucine rich repeat (NB-LRR) proteins. NB-LRRs mediate recognition of pathogen-derived …

Crop breeding for resistance to pathogens largely relies on genes encoding receptors that
confer race-specific immunity. Here, we report the identification of the wheat Pm4 race …

Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a devastating disease that
can cause severe yield losses. A previously uncharacterized Pgt race, designated Ug99 …

Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a devastating fungal
disease threatening global wheat production. The present paper reports the identification of …

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 …

Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a devastating foliar
disease. The Ug99 race group has combined virulence to most stem rust (Sr) resistance …

Plant NLR genes encode sensitive immune receptors that can mediate the specific
recognition of pathogen avirulence effectors and activate a strong defence response, termed …

Alternative splicing (AS) occurs widely in plants and can provide the main source of
transcriptome and proteome diversity in an organism. AS functions in a range of …

Plants are in a constant evolutionary arms race with their pathogens. At the molecular level,
the plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) family has coevolved with …