TY - JOUR
T1 - Plant disease resistance genes
T2 - Current status and future directions
AU - Gururani, Mayank Anand
AU - Venkatesh, Jelli
AU - Upadhyaya, Chandrama Prakash
AU - Nookaraju, Akula
AU - Pandey, Shashank Kumar
AU - Park, Se Won
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Konkuk University in 2010. The authors gratefully acknowledge Konkuk University for providing the fellowship to MAG, VJ and SP. This research fund is supported by Konkuk University research fund.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been one of the main objectives of any crop improvement program. Plant disease resistance (R) genes have the ability to detect a pathogen attack and facilitate a counter attack against the pathogen. Numerous plant R-genes have been used with varying degree of success in crop improvement programs in the past and many of them are being continuously exploited. With the onset of recent genomic, bioinformatics and molecular biology techniques, it is quite possible to tame the R-genes for efficiently controlling the plant diseases caused by pathogens. This review summarizes the recent applications and future potential of R-genes in crop disease management.
AB - Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been one of the main objectives of any crop improvement program. Plant disease resistance (R) genes have the ability to detect a pathogen attack and facilitate a counter attack against the pathogen. Numerous plant R-genes have been used with varying degree of success in crop improvement programs in the past and many of them are being continuously exploited. With the onset of recent genomic, bioinformatics and molecular biology techniques, it is quite possible to tame the R-genes for efficiently controlling the plant diseases caused by pathogens. This review summarizes the recent applications and future potential of R-genes in crop disease management.
KW - Disease management
KW - Plant diseases
KW - Plant pathogens
KW - Resistance genes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2012.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2012.01.002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84862778017
SN - 0885-5765
VL - 78
SP - 51
EP - 65
JO - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
JF - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
ER -