Week of Oct 27

PlP692

Resistance gene structure and evolution

Assignments

Monday

• Staal and Dixelius. (2007) Tracing the ancient origins of plant innate immunity. Trends Plant Sci. 12:334-342
• Liu, Liu, Dai, and Wang. (2007) Recent progress in elucidating the structure, function and evolution of disease resistance genes in plants. J. Genet. Genom. 34:765-776

• Friedman and Baker. (2007) The evolution of resistance genes in multi-protein plant resistance systems. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 17:493-499

Wednesday

• Petra M. Houterman, Ben J. C. Cornelissen, Martijn Rep. (2008) Suppression of Plant Resistance Gene-Based Immunity by a Fungal Effector. PLos Pathogens 4(5): e1000061. Julie

Friday

• Shen et al. (2007) Nuclear Activity of MLA Immune Receptors Links Isolate-Specific and Basal Disease-Resistance Responses. Science 315:1098 - 1103. Peter
• Dodds et al. (2006) Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and co-evolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genes. PNAS 103:8888-8893. Greg

Lecture slides and additional reading

Slides