Rpv2 is part of a cluster of NLRs specific to Vitis rotundifolia and confers extreme resistance to grapevine downy mildew.
Laurie Marsan, Emilce Prado, Sabine Wiedemann‐Merdinoglu, Laure Schmidlin, Sophie Blanc, Marion Delame, Sylvain Schnée, Burak Arti, Guillaume Barnabé, Amandine Velt, Vincent Dumas, Didier Merdinoglu, Camille Rustenholz, Pere Mestre
The paper maps the Rpv2 locus for extreme resistance to grapevine downy mildew to a 250 kb region containing two NLR-type genes specific to Vitis rotundifolia.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2025 · PreprintPlant Biology