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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 368-+Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0051-x
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- Institute Strategic Program from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC) [BB/J/00426x/1, BB/P016855/1]
- French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I000712/1, BB/J012017/1, BBS/E/C/000I0220, BBS/E/J/000PR9780, BBS/E/C/00005203, BBS/E/C/00005202, BBS/E/C/000I0250, BB/J003743/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BBS/E/J/000PR8000, BBS/E/C/00005203, BBS/E/C/00005202, BBS/E/C/000I0250, BB/I000712/1, BB/I025077/1, BB/J003743/1, BBS/E/J/000PR9780, BBS/E/C/000I0220, BB/J012017/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Deployment of fast-evolving disease-resistance genes is one of the most successful strategies used by plants to fend off pathogens(1,2). In gene-for-gene relationships, most cloned disease-resistance genes encode intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat proteins (NLRs) recognizing pathogen-secreted isolate-specific avirulence (Avr) effectors delivered to the host cytoplasm(3,4). This process often triggers a localized hypersensitive response, which halts further disease development(5). Here we report the map-based cloning of the wheat Stb6 gene and demonstrate that it encodes a conserved wall-associated receptor kinase (WAK)-like protein, which detects the presence of a matching apoplastic effector(6-8) and confers pathogen resistance without a hypersensitive response(9). This report demonstrates gene-for-gene disease resistance controlled by this class of proteins in plants. Moreover, Stb6 is, to our knowledge, the first cloned gene specifying resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici, an important foliar fungal pathogen affecting wheat and causing economically damaging septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease(10-12).
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