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ALTHOUGH the inheritance of resistance1 in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn.) is fairly well understood, most efforts to elucidate the biochemical mechanism involved have been unsuccessful. Biochemical studies of plant diseases involving rusts and other obligate parasites2 have contributed to knowledge of biochemical symptomatology, but no chemical changes have been correlated with the action of specific genes for resistance. Future advances it seemed, would depend on a reliable test to facilitate such correlations, and so we have developed a bioassay with the necessary specificity, which detects the presence of metabolites involved in the expression of the resistance. We have thus been able to demonstrate a gene-specific RNA that seems to be directly responsible for initiating the resistant reaction in wheat against stem rust. A preliminary report of some of these findings has been presented3.
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ROHRINGER, R., HOWES, N., KIM, W. et al. Evidence for a gene-specific RNA determining resistance in wheat to stem rust. Nature 249, 585–588 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249585a0
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