TY - JOUR
T1 - A single NLR gene confers resistance to leaf and stripe rust in wheat
AU - Sharma, Davinder
AU - Avni, Raz
AU - Gutierrez-Gonzalez, Juan
AU - Kumar, Rakesh
AU - Sela, Hanan
AU - Prusty, Manas Ranjan
AU - Shatil-Cohen, Arava
AU - Molnár, István
AU - Holušová, Kateřina
AU - Said, Mahmoud
AU - Doležel, Jaroslav
AU - Millet, Eitan
AU - Khazan-Kost, Sofia
AU - Landau, Udi
AU - Bethke, Gerit
AU - Sharon, Or
AU - Ezrati, Smadar
AU - Ronen, Moshe
AU - Maatuk, Oxana
AU - Eilam, Tamar
AU - Manisterski, Jacob
AU - Ben-Yehuda, Pnina
AU - Anikster, Yehoshua
AU - Matny, Oadi
AU - Steffenson, Brian J.
AU - Mascher, Martin
AU - Brabham, Helen J.
AU - Moscou, Matthew J.
AU - Liang, Yong
AU - Yu, Guotai
AU - Wulff, Brande B. H.
AU - Muehlbauer, Gary
AU - Minz-Dub, Anna
AU - Sharon, Amir
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by BARD grant # IS-5087-18 R to A.M-D., A.S., and G.M., The Lieberman Family and the JNF Australia donations to A.S., and by the Lieberman-Okinow Endowment at Tel Aviv University to the Institute for Cereal Crops Research. D.S. was supported by PBC fellowship of the Council for Higher Education of Israel; M.J.M. received funding from the 2Blades Foundation, Japan Tobacco Inc., KANEKA CORPORATION, the United Kingdom Research and Innovation-Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Institute Strategic Programme (UKRI-BBSRC ISP; grant no. BBS/E/J/000PR9795), the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service CRIS #5062-21220-025-000D; BBHW received funding from the 2Blades Foundation, and the UKRI-BBSRC ISP (grant no. BBS/E/J/000PR9780); J.D. received funding from ERDF project \u2018Plants as a tool for sustainable global development\u2019, No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827. We thank Zde\u0148ka Dubsk\u00E1, Romana \u0160perkov\u00E1, and Jitka Weiserov\u00E1 for the preparation of chromosome samples for flow cytometry. We thank Cathy Melamed-Bessudo for providing the modified CTAB protocol (PacBio-grade sequencing) and Yamit Bar-Lev for assistance with the DNA extraction process.
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PY - 2024/11/15
Y1 - 2024/11/15
N2 - Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) disease resistance genes typically confer resistance against races of a single pathogen. Here, we report that Yr87/Lr85, an NLR gene from Aegilops sharonensis and Aegilops longissima, confers resistance against both P. striiformis tritici (Pst) and Puccinia triticina (Pt) that cause stripe and leaf rust, respectively. Yr87/Lr85 confers resistance against Pst and Pt in wheat introgression as well as transgenic lines. Comparative analysis of Yr87/Lr85 and the cloned Triticeae NLR disease resistance genes shows that Yr87/Lr85 contains two distinct LRR domains and that the gene is only found in Ae. sharonensis and Ae. longissima. Allele mining and phylogenetic analysis indicate multiple events of Yr87/Lr85 gene flow between the two species and presence/absence variation explaining the majority of resistance to wheat leaf rust in both species. The confinement of Yr87/Lr85 to Ae. sharonensis and Ae. longissima and the resistance in wheat against Pst and Pt highlight the potential of these species as valuable sources of disease resistance genes for wheat improvement.
AB - Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) disease resistance genes typically confer resistance against races of a single pathogen. Here, we report that Yr87/Lr85, an NLR gene from Aegilops sharonensis and Aegilops longissima, confers resistance against both P. striiformis tritici (Pst) and Puccinia triticina (Pt) that cause stripe and leaf rust, respectively. Yr87/Lr85 confers resistance against Pst and Pt in wheat introgression as well as transgenic lines. Comparative analysis of Yr87/Lr85 and the cloned Triticeae NLR disease resistance genes shows that Yr87/Lr85 contains two distinct LRR domains and that the gene is only found in Ae. sharonensis and Ae. longissima. Allele mining and phylogenetic analysis indicate multiple events of Yr87/Lr85 gene flow between the two species and presence/absence variation explaining the majority of resistance to wheat leaf rust in both species. The confinement of Yr87/Lr85 to Ae. sharonensis and Ae. longissima and the resistance in wheat against Pst and Pt highlight the potential of these species as valuable sources of disease resistance genes for wheat improvement.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-024-54068-6
DO - 10.1038/s41467-024-54068-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 39548072
AN - SCOPUS:85209354924
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 15
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 9925
ER -