Extensive immune receptor repertoire diversity in disease-resistant rice landraces - Institut Agro Montpellier
Article Dans Une Revue Current Biology - CB Année : 2024

Extensive immune receptor repertoire diversity in disease-resistant rice landraces

Diana Ortiz
Thomas Kroj
Jonathan D.G. Jones
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Highlights: • Rice landraces from the Yuanyang terraces rarely show severe losses to disease • Landraces display high and ancient sequence diversity at NLR immune receptors • Variation in NLR number is higher in landraces than modern varieties • Diversity-maintaining (i.e., balancing) selection is widespread in landrace NLRs Summary: Plants have powerful defense mechanisms and extensive immune receptor repertoires, yet crop monocultures are prone to epidemic diseases. Rice (Oryza sativa) is susceptible to many diseases, such as rice blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae. Varietal resistance of rice to blast relies on intracellular nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors that recognize specific pathogen molecules and trigger immune responses. In the Yuanyang terraces in southwest China, rice landraces rarely show severe losses to disease whereas commercial inbred lines show pronounced field susceptibility. Here, we investigate within-landrace NLR sequence diversity of nine rice landraces and eleven modern varieties using complexity reduction techniques. We find that NLRs display high sequence diversity in landraces, consistent with balancing selection, and that balancing selection at NLRs is more pervasive in landraces than modern varieties. Notably, modern varieties lack many ancient NLR haplotypes that are retained in some landraces. Our study emphasizes the value of standing genetic variation that is maintained in farmer landraces as a resource to make modern crops and agroecosystems less prone to disease. The conservation of landraces is, therefore, crucial for ensuring food security in the face of dynamic biotic and abiotic threats.
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hal-04694233 , version 1 (11-09-2024)

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Pierre Gladieux, Cock van Oosterhout, Sebastian Fairhead, Agathe Jouet, Diana Ortiz, et al.. Extensive immune receptor repertoire diversity in disease-resistant rice landraces. Current Biology - CB, 2024, 34, pp.3983-3995. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.061⟩. ⟨hal-04694233⟩
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