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Plant defence

Long view from a high plateau

Nature volume 401, pages 543–544 (1999)Cite this article

*Attack and Defence: The Thirteenth John Innes Symposium 20–23 July, Norwich, UK; and Ninth International Congress of Molecular Plant–Microbe Interactions 25–30 July, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

One current debate swirls around how the diversity of the R genes evolves and is maintained. This debate reminds me of (and draws from) discussions that followed the isolation of major histocompatibility complex genes in the early 1980s — full of structures and sequence comparisons, with enlightening forays into population genetics and molecular evolution.

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Figure 1: Downy mildew disease of many plants is caused by obligate oomycete parasites.

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  1. *Attack and Defence: The Thirteenth John Innes Symposium 20–23 July, Norwich, UK; and Ninth International Congress of Molecular Plant–Microbe Interactions 25–30 July, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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