The Barley HvWRKY6 Transcription Factor Is Required for Resistance Against Pyrenophora teres f. teres.

ABSTRACT: Barley is an important cereal crop worldwide because of its use in the brewing and distilling industry. However, adequate supplies of quality malting barley are threatened by global climate change due to drought in some regions and excess precipitation in others, which facilitates epidemics caused by fungal pathogens. The disease net form net blotch caused by the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres (Ptt) has emerged as a global threat to barley production and diverse populations of Ptt have shown a capacity to overcome deployed genetic resistances. The barley line CI5791 exhibits remarkably effective resistance to diverse Ptt isolates from around the world that maps to two major QTL on chromosomes 3H and 6H. To identify genes involved

SUBMITTER: Tamang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7844392 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature