Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop
Carl J. VanGessel, Terry J. Felderhoff, Daniil M. Prigozhin…·Geoffrey P. Morris
The paper identifies the pangenomic origins and molecular basis of RMES1, a noncanonical NLR gene that enabled evolutionary rescue in sorghum by disrupting aphid feeding through global immunity activation.