Towards Engineering Broad-Spectrum Disease-Resistant Crops

Jingjing Tian; Guoyong Xu; Meng Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.012

Towards Engineering Broad-Spectrum Disease-Resistant Crops

Trends Plant Sci. 2020 May;25(5):424-427. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.012. Epub 2020 Mar 10.

Authors

Jingjing Tian¹, Guoyong Xu², Meng Yuan³

Affiliations

¹ National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. Electronic address: guoyong.xu@whu.edu.cn.
³ National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. Electronic address: myuan@mail.hzau.edu.cn.

PMID: 32304654
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.012

Abstract

Crop pathologists and breeders are pursuing not only mechanistic understanding of plant-pathogen interactions but also engineering durable and broad-spectrum disease-resistant cultivars. Both goals are achieved in three recent studies by stacking editing of regulatory elements within promoters of susceptibility genes for blight disease in rice.

Keywords: crop; disease resistance; gene editing; resistance gene; susceptibility gene.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Crops, Agricultural / genetics
Disease Resistance* / genetics
Humans
Oryza* / genetics
Plant Diseases / genetics