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Organization and molecular evolution of a disease-resistance gene cluster in coffee trees.
BMC genomics - 16 May 2011
Ribas Alessandra F, Cenci Alberto, Combes Marie-Christine, Etienne Hervé, Lashermes Philippe
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Most disease-resistance (R) genes in plants encode NBS-LRR proteins and belong to one of the largest and most variable gene families among plant genomes. However, the specific evolutionary routes of NBS-LRR encoding genes remain elusive. Recently in coffee tree (Coffea arabica), a region spanning the SH3 locus that confers resistance to coffee leaf rust, one of the most serious coffee diseases, was...
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