Horizontal gene transfer of <i>Fhb7</i> from fungus underlies <i>Fusarium</i> head blight resistance in wheat
Hongwei Wang(Shandong Agricultural University), Silong Sun(Shandong Agricultural University), Wenyang Ge(Shandong Agricultural University), Lanfei Zhao(Shandong Agricultural University), Bingqian Hou(Shandong Agricultural University), Kai Wang(Novogene Bioinformatics Institute), Zhongfan Lyu(Shandong Agricultural University), Liyang Chen(Novogene Bioinformatics Institute), Shoushen Xu(Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center), Jun Guo(Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Min Li(Shandong Agricultural University), Peisen Su(Shandong Agricultural University), Xuefeng Li(Shandong Agricultural University), Guiping Wang(Shandong Agricultural University), Cunyao Bo(Shandong Agricultural University), Xiaojian Fang(Shandong Agricultural University), Wenwen Zhuang(Shandong Agricultural University), Xinxin Cheng(Shandong Agricultural University), Jianwen Wu(Shandong Agricultural University), Luhao Dong(Shandong Agricultural University), Wuying Chen(Shandong Agricultural University), Li Wen(Shandong Agricultural University), Guilian Xiao(Shandong Agricultural University), Jinxiao Zhao(Shandong Agricultural University), Yongchao Hao(Shandong Agricultural University), Ying Xu(Shandong Agricultural University), Yu Gao(Shandong Agricultural University), Wenjing Liu(Shandong Agricultural University), Yanhe Liu(Shandong Agricultural University), Huayan Yin(Shandong Agricultural University), Jiazhu Li(Yantai University), Xiang Li(Shandong Agricultural University), Yan Zhao(Shandong Agricultural University), Xiaoqian Wang(Shandong Agricultural University), Fei Ni(Shandong Agricultural University), Xin Ma(Shandong Agricultural University), Anfei Li(Shandong Agricultural University), Steven S. Xu(Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center), Guihua Bai(Center for Grain and Animal Health Research), Eviatar Nevo(University of Haifa), Caixia Gao(Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology), H. W. Ohm(Purdue University West Lafayette), Lingrang Kong(Shandong Agricultural University)
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Abstract
Fungal disease meets its match Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by a fungus, reduces wheat crop yield and introduces toxins into the harvest. From the assembly of the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum , a wild relative of wheat used in breeding programs to improve cultivated wheat, Wang et al. cloned a gene that can address both problems (see the Perspective by Wulff and Jones). The encoded glutathione S -transferase detoxifies the trichothecene toxin and, when expressed in wheat, confers resistance to FHB. Science , this issue p. eaba5435 ; see also p. 822
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