Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Intracellular innate immune surveillance devices in plants and animals

JDG Jones, RE Vance, JL Dangl - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Pathogens cause agricultural devastation and huge economic losses. Up to
30% of our crops are lost before or after harvest to pathogens and pests, wasting water and …

Nanopore adaptive sampling: a tool for enrichment of low abundance species in metagenomic samples

S Martin, D Heavens, Y Lan, S Horsfield, MD Clark… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Adaptive sampling is a method of software-controlled enrichment unique to nanopore
sequencing platforms. To test its potential for enrichment of rarer species within …

Solanum americanum genome-assisted discovery of immune receptors that detect potato late blight pathogen effectors

X Lin, Y Jia, R Heal, M Prokchorchik… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) crops suffer severe losses
to late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Solanum …

Genetic engineering for disease resistance in plants: recent progress and future perspectives

OX Dong, PC Ronald - Plant physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future
Perspectives | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution

M Schreiber, M Jayakodi, N Stein… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as map** the molecular …

Late blight resistance genes in potato breeding

P Paluchowska, J Śliwka, Z Yin - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion Using late blight resistance genes targeting conservative effectors of
Phytophthora infestans and the constructing gene pyramids may lead to durable, broad …

Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics

S Arora, B Steuernagel, K Gaurav… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Emergence and spread of new races of wheat stem rust fungus: continued threat to food security and prospects of genetic control

RP Singh, DP Hodson, Y **, ES Lagudah… - …, 2015 - Am Phytopath Society
Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been
recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to …

An improved de novo assembly and annotation of the tomato reference genome using single-molecule sequencing, Hi-C proximity ligation and optical maps

PS Hosmani, M Flores-Gonzalez, H van de Geest… - biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The original Heinz 1706 reference genome was produced by a large team of scientists from
across the globe from a variety of input sources that included 454 sequences in addition to …