Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Henan Agricultural University

April L Leonard

Bailin Li

Marc C Albertsen

Shawn Thatcher

Tim Fox

Mary Trimnell

Jennifer S Jaqueth

Girma M Tabor

Junqiang Ding

Brian R Loveland

Bo Shen

Zhenglin Hou

Zhizeng Liu

Yurong Li

Meng Lv

Ce Deng

Tangshun Ai

James Cahill

Zhaohui Sun

Huimin Li

The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes and plant pathogen effector genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode plant pathogen effector proteins and proteins providing plant resistance to various diseases and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.

Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use

The field is related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting plants with resistance to southern corn rust. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode proteins providing plant resistance to southern corn rust and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.

Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing southern corn rust resistant crops

Compositions and methods for generating maize plants that exhibit resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. Isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide that confers resistance to northern leaf blight, polynucleotide constructs comprising such, and maize plants comprising the polynucleotide constructs are provided. The methods include expressing an isolated polynucleotide in a maize cell via standard transformation methods and obtaining a maize plant from said maize cell.

Generating maize plants with enhanced resistance to northern leaf blight

A nuclear maize gene is mutated to result in dominant male sterility. Two mutants are provided which impact signal peptide processing. Restoration constructs and methods are provided for use of the dominant male-sterile mutants in producing hybrid seed for male-sterile hybrid plants. Other signal-peptide modifications are provided. Orthologs of the wild type or mutated gene in various species are provided.

Genetic reduction of male fertility in plants

Genetic male sterile plants are provided in which complementing constructs result in suppression of a parental phenotype in the progeny. Methods to generate and maintain such plants and methods of use of said plants, are provided, including use of parental plants to produce sterile plants for hybrid seed production.

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Des Moines, IA, United States of America

April L Leonard