An ankyrin-repeat and WRKY-domain-containing immune receptor confers stripe rust resistance in wheat

Wheat stripe rust is a major disease of wheat caused by a fungal pathogen. Here the authors report the map-based cloning of YrU1, a stripe rust resistance gene from Triticum urartu, a diploid progenitor of common wheat, and show it encodes a NLR protein with unusual domain architecture

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huan Wang, Shenghao Zou, Yiwen Li, Fanyun Lin, Dingzhong Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15139-6