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Novel disease resistance specificities result from sequence exchange between tandemly repeated genes at the Cf-4/9 locus of tomato.
Cell - 12 Dec 1997
Parniske M, Hammond-Kosack K E, Golstein C, Thomas C M, Jones D A, Harrison K, Wulff B B, Jones J D
Abstract excerpt
Tomato Cf genes confer resistance to C. fulvum, reside in complex loci carrying multiple genes, and encode predicted membrane-bound proteins with extracytoplasmic leucine-rich repeats. At least two Cf-9 homologs confer novel C. fulvum resistance specificities. Comparison of 11 genes revealed 7 hypervariable amino acid positions in a motif of the leucine-rich repeats predicted to form a beta-strand/beta-turn in...
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