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The maintenance of extreme amino acid diversity at the disease resistance gene, RPP13, in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Genetics - 1 Mar 2004
Rose Laura E, Bittner-Eddy Peter D, Langley Charles H, Holub Eric B, Michelmore Richard W, Beynon Jim L
Abstract excerpt
We have used the naturally occurring plant-parasite system of Arabidopsis thaliana and its common parasite Peronospora parasitica (downy mildew) to study the evolution of resistance specificity in the host population. DNA sequence of the resistance gene, RPP13, from 24 accessions, including 20 from the United Kingdom, revealed amino acid sequence diversity higher than that of any protein coding gene reported so...
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