作者
Sanu Arora,Burkhard Steuernagel,Kumar Gaurav,Sutha Chandramohan,Yunming Long,Oadi Matny,Ryan C. Johnson,Jacob Enk,Sambasivam Periyannan,Narinder Singh,Muhammad Asyraf Md Hatta,Naveenkumar Athiyannan,Jitender Cheema,Guotai Yu,Ngonidzashe Kangara,Sreya Ghosh,Les J. Szabo,Jesse Poland,Harbans Bariana,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Alison R. Bentley,Mick Ayliffe,Eric Olson,Steven S. Xu,Brian J. Steffenson,Evans Lagudah,Brande B. H. Wulff
摘要
Disease resistance (R) genes from wild relatives could be used to engineer broad-spectrum resistance in domesticated crops. We combined association genetics with R gene enrichment sequencing (AgRenSeq) to exploit pan-genome variation in wild diploid wheat and rapidly clone four stem rust resistance genes. AgRenSeq enables R gene cloning in any crop that has a diverse germplasm panel. The treasure trove of disease resistance genes present in wild relatives of domesticated crops is rapidly discovered using association genetics and enrichment sequencing.