Gene-for-gene-mediated resistance to southern corn rust in maize

Jie Mei; Shaoqun Zhou; Wende Liu

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2022.12.002

Gene-for-gene-mediated resistance to southern corn rust in maize

Trends Plant Sci. 2023 Mar;28(3):255-258. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.12.002. Epub 2022 Dec 13.

Authors

Jie Mei¹, Shaoqun Zhou², Wende Liu³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China.
² Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China.
³ State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China. Electronic address: liuwende@caas.cn.

PMID: 36522259
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.12.002

Abstract

Southern corn rust (SCR) severely threatens maize production worldwide. Achieving durable control of SCR requires efficient breeding and deployment of resistant hybrids. Recently, two research teams (Chen et al. and Deng et al.) cloned two SCR resistance genes (RppC and RppK) and the cognate Avr genes (AvrRppC and AvrRppK), which will accelerate SCR resistance breeding.

Keywords: RppC; RppK; avirulence gene; maize; resistance gene; southern corn rust.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Basidiomycota* / genetics
Plant Breeding
Plant Diseases / genetics
Zea mays* / genetics