Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

This study characterizes the Rlm3 resistance gene in rapeseed, showing it recognizes effectors from multiple fungal pathogens and identifies key regions for recognition.

This paper introduces a controlled environment assay for evaluating verticillium stripe resistance in canola, validated against field trials showing strong correlation.

The paper generates complete genome assemblies for Australian Plasmodiophora brassicae isolates and reveals a unique, highly divergent clade with distinct effector profiles.

This study identifies four rice HMA domain-containing proteins as targets of the Magnaporthe oryzae effector AVR-Pia and reveals the molecular basis of their interaction.

This study reveals that Rhizoctonia solani AG-8 has two nuclear haplotypes with differing abundances and gene expression patterns during plant infection.

This study shows that disrupting the SnRK1β1A gene in rice confers broad-spectrum resistance to fungal diseases without affecting growth or yield.

The paper identifies Avr6 as the effector gene in Fulvia fulva that overcomes Cf-6-mediated immunity in tomato, showing its loss or mutation leads to resistance breakdown.

The paper investigates how temperature changes affect maize-Ustilago maydis interactions by analyzing transcriptomic data and identifying key factors influencing infection.

The paper screens 20 uncharacterized Lupinus angustifolius accessions for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lupini and identifies L26 as the most resistant and L49 as the most susceptible.

The paper screens Arabidopsis ecotypes for clubroot resistance, identifies novel resistant lines, and explores genetic mechanisms underlying resistance.

This study assesses genetic resistance to major tomato diseases in wild and cultivated germplasm, identifying wild species as rich sources of resistance loci.

The paper catalogs NLR diversity in sweetpotato and wild relatives using RenSeq, identifying 800-1,200 NLRs and highlighting CNL diversity and conservation across genotypes.

The paper shows that meiotic recombination in Leptosphaeria maculans produces isolates better adapted to the nonhost Brassica carinata than their parental isolates.

The paper presents a chromosome-scale, haplotype-phased genome of sugar beet line FC309 and identifies a QTL for Fusarium Yellows resistance on Chromosome 3.

This paper develops a standard area diagram (SAD) to improve the accuracy and precision of Fusarium yellows disease rating in sugar beet, showing no statistical difference between two SAD versions and demonstrating machine learning models' congruency with human estimates.

This study compares clubroot disease severity in Brassica rapa grown in chemical and organic soils, finding lower disease severity in organic soils due to higher bacterial biomass and diversity.

The paper integrates multi-omic data to identify regulatory networks underlying disease resistance in maize, revealing a key signaling module involved in resistance to northern leaf blight.

This study refines the NLRome of Brassica napus using RenSeq, increasing annotated NLR genes from 345 to 715 and identifying genomic regions with misannotations.

This study identifies PbEGF1, an effector from Plasmodiophora brassicae, which manipulates plant immunity and promotes infection by degrading BnNHL13.

This study identifies a genetic locus associated with fungal pathogen resistance in wild tobacco plants, showing frequency- and spatially-dependent effects in mixed populations.

This paper presents the first telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Plasmodiophora brassicae, a plant pathogen, and provides a high-quality gene annotation.

The paper uses RNA-Seq to compare gene expression in susceptible and resistant maize lines infected with downy mildew, identifying DEGs involved in resistance mechanisms.

MPSeqM combines multiplex PCR and sequencing to analyze polymorphism in eight AvrLm genes of L. maculans, showing high correlation with pathotyping and enabling large-scale monitoring of virulent isolates.

The paper reports a chromosome-level genome assembly of Lactuca saligna and identifies resistance genes associated with non-host resistance to downy mildew.

The paper identifies genetic regions associated with resistance to European canker in apple using QTL analysis across multiple phenotyping experiments.

The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly for Aphanomyces cochlioides, a sugar beet pathogen, using long-read and short-read sequencing data.

The paper analyzes the pangenome of Rhizoctonia solani isolates and develops a database, RsolaniDB, to facilitate research on its genetic diversity and pathogenicity.

The paper presents a near telomere-to-telomere, haplotype-phased genome of Rhizoctonia cerealis, revealing gene enrichment and population genomic patterns.

The paper clones a new avirulence gene, AvrLmS-Lep2, using two independent methods and confirms its role in inducing resistance in Brassica napus.

This study transfers the apple resistance gene Rvi6 to pear and compares the molecular mechanisms of resistance against different scab pathogens in both species.