Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use
AssigneeHuazhong Agricultural University
InventorsZhibing Lai, Bao Zhang, Jiali Wang, Junshi Huang, Hongze Wang, Haoxuan Min
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Abstract
The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes and plant pathogen effector genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode plant pathogen effector proteins and proteins providing plant resistance to various diseases and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.
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A method of validating a causal disease resistance gene comprising:
- a. identifying at least one candidate gene in a disease resistance locus in a disease resistant maize plant;
- b. transfecting at least one allele of a plant pathogen effector gene and a luciferase gene into a maize protoplast, wherein the maize protoplast is derived from the disease resistant maize plant, and wherein the pathogen effector gene is from Puccinia polysora and encodes a polypeptide comprising a sequence having at least 995% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 4;
- c. measuring luciferase activity;
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- d. selecting a gene that produces a hypersensitive response in the presence of the plant pathogen effector.
A maize protoplast comprising a predicted pathogen effector gene from Puccinia polysora, and a luciferase gene, wherein the predicted pathogen effector gene is predicted from a computational analysis, and wherein the pathogen effector gene encodes a polypeptide comprising a sequence having at least 995% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 4;
- said maize protoplast further comprising a candidate maize disease resistance gene.
A maize plant comprising a dsRNA targeting a pathogen effector protein from P. polysora, wherein the pathogen effector protein was identified or validated through a luciferase reporter protoplast assay, and wherein the pathogen effector comprises a sequence having at least 995% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 4.
A recombinant DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence wherein said polynucleotide comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 995% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 4.
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