Wheat receptor-kinase-like protein Stb6 controls gene-for-gene resistance to fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Deployment of fast-evolving disease-resistance genes is one of the most successful strategies used by plants to fend off pathogens1,2. In gene-for-gene relationships, most cloned disease-resistance genes encode intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat proteins (NLRs) recognizing pathogen-secreted isolate-specific avirulence (Avr) effectors delivered to the host cytoplasm3,4. This process often triggers a localized hypersensitive response, which halts further disease development5. Here we report the map-based cloning of the wheat Stb6 gene and demonstrate that it encodes a conserved wall-associated receptor kinase (WAK)-like protein, which detects the presence of a matching apoplastic effector6–8 and confers pathogen resistance without a hypersensitive response9. This report demonstrates gene-for-gene disease resistance controlled by this class of proteins in plants. Moreover, Stb6 is, to our knowledge, the first cloned gene specifying resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici, an important foliar fungal pathogen affecting wheat and causing economically damaging septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease10–12.The authors report map-based cloning of the wheat Stb6 gene, which encodes a conserved wall-associated receptor kinase (WAK)-like protein. Stb6 confers gene-for-gene disease resistance to fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici by recognition of a matching pathogen effector.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature Genetics

• Publication date

  2018-02-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41588-018-0051-xPMID 29434355
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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