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GENETICS
卷 182, 期 2, 页码 595-602出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.099614
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- Kansas Wheat Commission
- U. S. Department of Agriculture-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center
- Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas [07-305-J]
The wheat. leaf-rust resistance gene Lr21 was first identified in air Iranian accession of goatgrass, Aegilops tauschii Coss., the D-genome donor of hexaploid bread wheat, and was introgressed into modern wheat cultivars by breeding. To elucidate tire origin of the gene, we analyzed sequences of Lr21 and lr21 alleles from 24 wheat cultivars and 25 accessions of Ae. tauschii collected along the Caspian Sea in Iran and Azerbaijan. Three basic nonfunctional lr21 haplotypes, H1, H2, and H3, were identified. Lr21 was found to be a chimera of H1 and H2, which were found only in wheat. We attempted to reconstitute a functional Lr21 allele by crossing the cultivars Fielder (H1) and Wichita (H2). Rust inoculation of 5876 F-2 progeny revealed a single resistant plant that proved to carry the H1H2 haplotype, a result attributed to intragenic recombination. These findings reflect. how plants balance the penalty and the necessity of a resistance gene and suggest that plants can reuse dead alleles to generate new disease-resistance specificity, leading to a death-recycle model of plant-resistance gene evolution at simple loci. We suggest that selection pressure in crop-weed complexes contributes to this process.
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