Extensive immune receptor repertoire diversity in disease-resistant rice landraces
P. Gladieux, C. van Oosterhout, S. Fairhead, A. Jouet, D. Ortiz, S. Ravel, R.-K. Shrestha, J. Frouin, X. He, Y. Zhu, J. B. Morel, H. Huang, T. Kroj, J. D. Jones
The paper examines NLR sequence diversity in rice landraces and modern varieties, finding higher diversity and balancing selection in landraces, suggesting their value for disease resistance.
bioRxiv · Dec 5, 2022Evolutionary Biology