GmERF109 Positively Enhances Soybean Resistance to Phytophthora sojae by Transcriptionally Activating GmG4DT‐Like to Promote Glyceollin I Accumulation
Xin Fang, Rui Liang, Yiling Cheng, Hong Gao, Chuanzhong Zhang, Jingcan Sun, Junjun Song, Gengpu Zhang, Meng Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Yan Sun, Xiran Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Kexin Ma, Shuo Wang, Kexin Li, Jiapeng Tong, Junjiang Wu, Pengfei Xu, Shuzhen Zhang · 2026
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Xin Fang and nineteen co-authors trace a switch that arms soybeans against a root-rotting water mold, in a 2026 paper. The mold is a top threat to soybean harvests worldwide. Resistant and weak bean lines differ in one switch gene, which the team pulled into the light. The switch sits in the cell core and turns other genes on, as its family does.
Its main target builds a step in making glyceollin, the bean's own germ poison. Raising either the switch or its target lifted the poison's level and hardened plants against the mold. Muting them did the reverse. The chain from switch to target to poison gives breeders two handles for tougher beans. The authors say stacking such handles may beat any single resistance gene.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xin Fang, Rui Liang, Yiling Cheng, Hong Gao, Chuanzhong Zhang, Jingcan Sun, Junjun Song, Gengpu Zhang, Meng Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Yan Sun, Xiran Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Kexin Ma, Shuo Wang, Kexin Li, Jiapeng Tong, Junjiang Wu, Pengfei Xu, Shuzhen Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |