August
2004
, Volume
17
, Number
8
Pages
853
-
864
Authors
Michael A.
Ayliffe
,
1
Martin
Steinau
,
2
Robert F.
Park
,
3
Lee
Rooke
,
1
Maria G.
Pacheco
,
2
Scot H.
Hulbert
,
2
Harold N.
Trick
,
2
and
Anthony J.
Pryor
1
Affiliations
1CSIRO Plant Industry, Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia; 2Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Science Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66505, U.S.A.; 3The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute Cobbitty, Private Bag 11, Camden NSW, 2570, Australia
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Accepted 15 March 2004.
Abstract
The maize Rp1-D gene confers race-specific resistance against Puccinia sorghi (common leaf rust) isolates containing a corresponding avrRp1-D avirulence gene. An Rp1-D genomic clone and a similar Rp1-D transgene regulated by the maize ubiquitin promoter were transformed independently into susceptible maize lines and shown to confer Rp1-D resistance, demonstrating that this resistance can be transferred as a single gene. Transfer of these functional transgenes into wheat and barley did not result in novel resistances when these plants were challenged with isolates of wheat stem rust (P. graminis), wheat leaf rust (P. triticina), or barley leaf rust (P. hordei). Regardless of the promoter employed, low levels of gene expression were observed. When constitutive promoters were used for transgene expression, a majority of Rp1-D transcripts were truncated in the nucleotide binding site-encoding region by premature polyadenylation. This aberrant mRNA processing was unrelated to gene function because an inactive version of the gene also generated such transcripts. These data demonstrate that resistance gene transfer between species may not be limited only by divergence of signaling effector molecules and pathogen avirulence ligands, but potentially also by more fundamental gene expression and transcript processing limitations.
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cereal,
R gene.
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