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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Resistance to cereal rusts at the plant cell wall—what can we learn from other host-pathogen systems?

N. C. Collins A D , R. E. Niks B and P. Schulze-Lefert C
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A Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK; current address: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, PMB1 Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.

B Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, PO Box 386, 6700 Wageningen, The Netherlands.

C Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl von Linné Weg 10, D-50829 Köln, Germany.

D Corresponding author. Email: nick.collins@acpfg.com.au

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 58(6) 476-489 https://doi.org/10.1071/AR06065
Submitted: 1 March 2006  Accepted: 25 July 2006   Published: 26 June 2007

Abstract

The ability of plant cells to resist invasion by pathogenic fungi at the cell periphery (pre-invasion resistance) differs from other types of resistance that are generally triggered after parasite entry and during differentiation of specialised intracellular feeding structures. Genetic sources of pre-invasion resistance such as mlo for barley powdery mildew and Lr34 for resistance to wheat leaf rust have proven to be broad-spectrum in effect and durable in the field. Continued breeding for this type of resistance (often quantitative in effect) is therefore considered an important strategy to protect cereal crops long-term against potentially devastating fungal diseases such as rusts. Considerable progress has been made in characterising genes and processes underlying pre-invasion resistance using mutant analysis, molecular genetics, gene cloning, and the model plant Arabidopsis, as well as comparative functional analysis of genes in Arabidopsis and cereals. This review summarises the current knowledge in this field, and discusses several aspects of pre-invasion resistance potentially pertinent to use in breeding; namely, biological cost of the resistance and effectiveness of individual resistance genes against multiple pathogen types. We show that mutations in Mlo, Ror1, and Ror2 genes known to affect powdery mildew pre-invasion resistance have no detectable effect on partial resistance to barley leaf rust as measured by latency period.

Additional keywords: Lr46, Sr2, PEN genes, partial resistance, pre-haustorial resistance.


Acknowledgments

NC was supported by Syngenta and the Gatsby Foundation at the Sainsbury Laboratory. The authors gratefully thank T. Schnurbusch for helpful comments, and T. Carver (IGER, Aberystwyth) and Rosemary White (CSIRO, Canberra) for kindly providing Fig. 1a and 1b, respectively.


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