Article
Evolutionary dynamics of plant R-genes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Jun 2001
Bergelson J, Kreitman M, Stahl E A, Tian D
Abstract excerpt
Plant R-genes involved in gene-for-gene interactions with pathogens are expected to undergo coevolutionary arms races in which plant specificity and pathogen virulence continually adapt in response to each other. Lending support to this idea, the solvent-exposed amino acid residues of leucine-rich repeats, a region of R-genes involved in recognizing pathogens, often evolve at unusually fast rates. But...
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