Loss of premature stop codon in the Wall-Associated Kinase 91 (OsWAK91) gene confers sheath blight disease resistance in rice
N. Al-Bader, A. Meier, M. Geniza, Y. S. Gongora, J. Oard, P. Jaiswal
This paper identifies a SNP in OsWAK91 that confers resistance to sheath blight in rice by causing a premature stop codon loss, leading to a longer protein kinase domain.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2019 · PreprintPlant Biology