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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 47, Issue 12, Pages 1494-1498Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3439
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- Grains Research and Development Corporation, Australia [CSP00161, CSP00164]
- Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) Post Doctoral Fellowship of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
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As there are numerous pathogen species that cause disease and limit yields of crops, such as wheat (Triticum aestivum), single genes that provide resistance to multiple pathogens are valuable in crop improvement(1,2). The mechanistic basis of multi-pathogen resistance is largely unknown. Here we use comparative genomics, mutagenesis and transformation to isolate the wheat Lr67 gene, which confers partial resistance to all three wheat rust pathogen species and powdery mildew. The Lr67 resistance gene encodes a predicted hexose transporter (LR67res) that differs from the susceptible form of the same protein (LR67sus) by two amino acids that are conserved in orthologous hexose transporters. Sugar uptake assays show that LR67sus, and related proteins encoded by homeoalleles, function as high-affinity glucose transporters. LR67res exerts a dominant-negative effect through heterodimerization with these functional transporters to reduce glucose uptake. Alterations in hexose transport in infected leaves may explain its ability to reduce the growth of multiple biotrophic pathogen species.
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