A giant NLR gene confers broad-spectrum resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean (Nature Comms.)
Plant Science Research WeeklyPhytophthora sojae is an oomycete pathogen that causes huge yield losses in soybean. Genetic studies have identified several loci that confer resistance (Resistance-to-P. sojae loci, or Rps). Here, Wang et al. have cloned Rps11 and found that it encodes a very large NLR (nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich…