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- Title
The barley immune receptor Mla recognizes multiple pathogens and contributes to host range dynamics.
- Authors
Bettgenhaeuser, Jan; Hernández-Pinzón, Inmaculada; Dawson, Andrew M.; Gardiner, Matthew; Green, Phon; Taylor, Jodie; Smoker, Matthew; Ferguson, John N.; Emmrich, Peter; Hubbard, Amelia; Bayles, Rosemary; Waugh, Robbie; Steffenson, Brian J.; Wulff, Brande B. H.; Dreiseitl, Antonín; Ward, Eric R.; Moscou, Matthew J.
- Abstract
Crop losses caused by plant pathogens are a primary threat to stable food production. Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) is a fungal pathogen of cereal crops that causes significant, persistent yield loss. Stripe rust exhibits host species specificity, with lineages that have adapted to infect wheat and barley. While wheat stripe rust and barley stripe rust are commonly restricted to their corresponding hosts, the genes underlying this host specificity remain unknown. Here, we show that three resistance genes, Rps6, Rps7, and Rps8, contribute to immunity in barley to wheat stripe rust. Rps7 cosegregates with barley powdery mildew resistance at the Mla locus. Using transgenic complementation of different Mla alleles, we confirm allele-specific recognition of wheat stripe rust by Mla. Our results show that major resistance genes contribute to the host species specificity of wheat stripe rust on barley and that a shared genetic architecture underlies resistance to the adapted pathogen barley powdery mildew and non-adapted pathogen wheat stripe rust. The genes underlying stripe rust host specificity between wheat and barley remain unknown. Here, the authors report that Rps6, Rps7 and Rps8 determine host species specificity in barley at different stages of the pathogen lifecycle and the barley powdery mildew immune receptor Mla8 and Rps7 are the same gene.
- Subjects
STRIPE rust; PUCCINIA striiformis; BARLEY; WHEAT rusts; SPECIES specificity; RUST diseases
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-27288-3