Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Huazhong Agricultural University

Henan Agricultural University

Girma M Tabor

Bailin Li

Jennifer S Jaqueth

April L Leonard

Shawn Thatcher

Junqiang Ding

Zhenglin Hou

Robert B Meeley

Huirong Gao

Leandro Daniel Perugini

Enrique Domingo Kreff

Hongze Wang

Zhibing Lai

Meng Lv

Ce Deng

Tangshun Ai

Jianbing Yan

Gengshen Chen

Qianhui Yang

April Lynn Leonard

The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode 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.

Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing disease resistant crops

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 obtaining plant cells with modified Ht1 nucleotide sequences, modified NLB18 sequences, or both, are provided herein. The methods involve introducing double-strand breaks into the maize genome in an endogenous Ht1 encoding sequence, an endogenous NLB18 encoding sequence, or both, to modify the genomic sequence in order to enhance northern leaf blight resistance of a plant produced from the plant cell. Further provided are methods that introduce resistant alleles of Ht1 and/or NLB18 into specific sites in the genome. Plants produced by the plant cells, and seeds produced from the plants are also included. Guide polynucleotides are also provided for the use of the CRISPR-Cas system in inducing double strand breaks.

Generating northern leaf blight resistant maize

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

Compositions and methods useful in identifying and/or selecting maize plants having resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. The resistance may be newly conferred or enhanced relative to a control plant. The methods use markers to identify, select and/or construct resistant plants. Maize plants identified, selected, and/or generated by the methods described herein are also provided.

Compositions and methods for identifying and selecting maize plants with resistance to northern leaf blight

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Johnston, IA, United States of America

Girma M Tabor