Towards climate resilient crops: Understanding effects of changing climate on crop fungal disease resistance - EOI Only

Rust fungal diseases pose a constant threat to wheat production. Plant genes which confer resistance to fungal diseases are an important and environmentally friendly method of disease control. Multipathogen or adult plant resistance (APR) genes can confer partial resistance to multiple pathogens and differ from classical immune receptor resistance genes. Abiotic factors are known to influence the expression and function of APRs, however, it is unknown how the current repertoire of wheat rust disease resistance genes perform under elevated temperature and CO2.