Qingnan Hao, Hongli Yang, Shuilian Chen, Chanjuan Zhang, Limiao Chen, Dong Cao, Songli Yuan, Wei Guo, Zhonglu Yang, Yi Huang, Yanhui Qu, Lucy Qin, Xiaoyan Sheng, Xueyan Wang, Chandrani Mitra, Heng Zhong, John Dawson, Eric Bumann, Wenling Wang, Yaping Jiang, Guozhu Tang, Ryan Carlin, Haifeng Chen, Qingli Liu, Zhihui Shan, Xinan Zhou
Asian soybean rust (ASR), caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, is a devastating disease that is present in all major soybean-producing regions. The limited availability of resistant germplasm has resulted in a scarcity of commercial soybean cultivars that are resistant to the disease. To date, only the Chinese soybean landrace SX6907 has demonstrated an immune response to ASR. In this study, we present the isolation and characterization of Rpp6907-7 and Rpp6907-4, a gene pair that confer broad-spectrum resistance to ASR...
April 17, 2024: Nature Communications