@article{karre_kim_kim_khangura_sermons_dilkes_johal_balint-kurti_2021, title={Maize Plants Chimeric for an Autoactive Resistance Gene Display a Cell-Autonomous Hypersensitive Response but Non–Cell Autonomous Defense Signaling}, volume={34}, ISSN={0894-0282 1943-7706}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-04-20-0091-R}, DOI={10.1094/MPMI-04-20-0091-R}, abstractNote={The maize gene Rp1-D21 is a mutant form of the gene Rp1-D that confers resistance to common rust. Rp1-D21 triggers a spontaneous defense response that occurs in the absence of the pathogen and includes a programed cell death called the hypersensitive response (HR). Eleven plants heterozygous for Rp1-D21, in four different genetic backgrounds, were identified that had chimeric leaves with lesioned sectors showing HR abutting green nonlesioned sectors lacking HR. The Rp1-D21 sequence derived from each of the lesioned portions of leaves was unaltered from the expected sequence whereas the Rp1-D21 sequences from nine of the nonlesioned sectors displayed various mutations, and we were unable to amplify Rp1-D21 from the other two nonlesioned sectors. In every case, the borders between the sectors were sharp, with no transition zone, suggesting that HR and chlorosis associated with Rp1-D21 activity was cell autonomous. Expression of defense response marker genes was assessed in the lesioned and nonlesioned sectors as well as in near-isogenic plants lacking and carrying Rp1-D21. Defense gene expression was somewhat elevated in nonlesioned sectors abutting sectors carrying Rp1-D21 compared with near-isogenic plants lacking Rp1-D21. This suggests that, whereas the HR itself was cell autonomous, other aspects of the defense response initiated by Rp1-D21 were not.}, number={6}, journal={Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®}, publisher={Scientific Societies}, author={Karre, Shailesh and Kim, Saet-Byul and Kim, Bong-Suk and Khangura, Rajdeep S. and Sermons, Shannon M. and Dilkes, Brian and Johal, Guri and Balint-Kurti, Peter}, year={2021}, month={Jun}, pages={606–616} }
 @article{wagner_tang_salvato_clouse_bartlett_vintila_phillips_sermons_hoffmann_balint-kurti_et al._2021, title={Microbe-dependent heterosis in maize}, volume={118}, ISSN={0027-8424 1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021965118}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.2021965118}, abstractNote={Significance}, number={30}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Wagner, Maggie R. and Tang, Clara and Salvato, Fernanda and Clouse, Kayla M. and Bartlett, Alexandria and Vintila, Simina and Phillips, Laura and Sermons, Shannon and Hoffmann, Mark and Balint-Kurti, Peter J. and et al.}, year={2021}, month={Jul} }