The variable wheat stripe rust effector AvrYr7 evades Yr7 recognition through sequence and expression polymorphisms
Danish Ilyas Baig, Mareike Möller, Rita Tam, Eric C. Pereira, Julián Rodríguez-Algaba, Shideh Mojerlou, Mogens Støvring Hovmøller, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Thuan Nha Ho, J Zhang, Yi Ding, Jingyu Li, Jiajie Wu, Sambasivam K. Periyannan, Xiaoxiao Zhang, , Benjamin Schwessinger
The paper clones AvrYr7, an effector gene in wheat stripe rust, and identifies variants that evade recognition by the resistance gene Yr7 through sequence and expression differences.
bioRxiv · May 10, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology