Allelic compatibility in plant immune receptors facilitates engineering of new effector recognition specificities.
A. R. Bentham, J. C. De la Concepcion, J. V. Benjumea, S. Jones, M. Mendel, J. Stubbs, C. E. Stevenson, J. H. Maidment, J. Kourelis, R. Zdrzalek, S. Kamoun, M. J. Banfield
This paper demonstrates how allelic compatibility in the Pik NLR pair can be exploited to engineer NLRs with expanded effector recognition specificities without causing constitutive cell death.
bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2022Plant Biology