Revisiting the Origin of Plant NBS-LRR Genes.

Trends Plant Sci

State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China. Electronic address:

Published: January 2019

The NBS-LRR genes are functionally responsible for plant resistance to alien pathogens. Here, we show that NBS-LRR genes originated in the common ancestor of the whole green lineage, and have rapidly diverged into three subclasses with different domain combinations (TNL, CNL, and RNL) before the split of green algae.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.015DOI Listing

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