Gene pyramids and the balancing act of keeping pests at bay

Gustavo C MacIntosh

doi:10.1093/jxb/erz216

Gene pyramids and the balancing act of keeping pests at bay

J Exp Bot. 2019 Sep 24;70(18):4591-4593. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz216.

Author

Gustavo C MacIntosh¹

Affiliation

¹ Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Kamphuis LG, Klingler JP, Jacques S, Gao L-l, Edwards OR, Singh KB. 2019. Additive and epistatic interactions between AKR and AIN loci conferring bluegreen aphid resistance and hypersensitivity in Medicago truncatula. Journal of Experimental Botany 70, 4887-4902.

Keywords: Medicago truncatula; R gene; Aphids; gene pyramid; host-plant resistance; phytohormone crosstalk.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Aphids*
Medicago truncatula*