The AvrSen1 Triggers a Hypersensitive Response in Potatoes While Natural Variants Evade Detection.

is an obligate biotrophic fungus of division Chytridiomycota. It causes potato wart disease, has a worldwide quarantine status and is included on the Health and Human Services and United States Department of Agriculture Select Agent list. isolates are grouped in pathotypes based on their ability to evade host resistance in a set of differential potato varieties.

The Solanum demissum R8 late blight resistance gene is an Sw-5 homologue that has been deployed worldwide in late blight resistant varieties.

The potato late blight resistance gene R8 has been cloned. R8 is found in five late blight resistant varieties deployed in three different continents. R8 recognises Avr8 and is homologous to the NB-LRR protein Sw-5 from tomato.

Development of late blight resistant potatoes by cisgene stacking.

Background: Phytophthora infestans, causing late blight in potato, remains one of the most devastating pathogens in potato production and late blight resistance is a top priority in potato breeding. The introduction of multiple resistance (R) genes with different spectra from crossable species into potato varieties is required. Cisgenesis is a promising approach that introduces native genes from the crops own gene pool using GM technology, thereby retaining favourable characteristics of established varieties.

Cloning and characterization of r3b; members of the r3 superfamily of late blight resistance genes show sequence and functional divergence.

Massive resistance (R) gene stacking is considered to be one of the most promising approaches to provide durable resistance to potato late blight for both conventional and genetically modified breeding strategies. The R3 complex locus on chromosome XI in potato is an example of natural R gene stacking, because it contains two closely linked R genes (R3a and R3b) with distinct resistance specificities to Phytophthora infestans. Here, we report about the positional cloning of R3b.

Regeneration of pea (Pisum sativum L.) by a cyclic organogenic system.

In a five-step procedure, plants were regenerated from meristematic tissue initiated from nodal tissue in four pea cultivars ('Espace', 'Classic', 'Solara', and 'Puget'). In step 1, stem tissue with one node (1-cm size) was subcultured on medium containing thidiazuron. As a result multiple shoots were produced, appearing normal or swollen at their bases.

Isolation of a gene encoding a copper chaperone for the copper/zinc superoxide dismutase and characterization of its promoter in potato.

Gene expression during the potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber lifecycle was monitored by cDNA-amplified fragment-length polymorphism, and several differentially expressed transcript-derived fragments were isolated. One fragment, named TDFL431, showed high homology to a copper (Cu) chaperone for Cu/zinc superoxide dismutase (CCS). The Ccs protein is responsible for the delivery of Cu to the Cu/zinc superoxide dismutase enzyme.