1.Background Crop diseases diminish potential yields by over 20%annually worldwide[1],driving a century-long quest to understand and harness genetic resistance in plants.The genetic basis of disease resistance was fir...1.Background Crop diseases diminish potential yields by over 20%annually worldwide[1],driving a century-long quest to understand and harness genetic resistance in plants.The genetic basis of disease resistance was first recognized in the early 1900s,when Biffen(1905)demonstrated that resistance to stripe rust in wheat(Triticum aestivum)followed Mendelian rules of inheritance[2].This foundational insight was later expanded by Flor(1942),who formulated the“gene-for-gene”model describing the genetic interplay between host resistance(R)genes and pathogen avirulence(Avr)genes[3].展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U21A20224)the Key Research and Development Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2023YFD1200402)to Zhiyong Liu and by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to Brande B.H.Wulff.We thank Dr.Keyu Zhu(Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences)for helping to prepare the Figure.
文摘1.Background Crop diseases diminish potential yields by over 20%annually worldwide[1],driving a century-long quest to understand and harness genetic resistance in plants.The genetic basis of disease resistance was first recognized in the early 1900s,when Biffen(1905)demonstrated that resistance to stripe rust in wheat(Triticum aestivum)followed Mendelian rules of inheritance[2].This foundational insight was later expanded by Flor(1942),who formulated the“gene-for-gene”model describing the genetic interplay between host resistance(R)genes and pathogen avirulence(Avr)genes[3].
