DOI: 10.1111/pce.70931 ISSN: 0140-7791
Rapid Diversification of Angiosperm Nucleotide‐Binding Leucine‐Rich Repeat Receptors Revealed by Evolutionary, Expression and Structural Analyses
Yao Gong, Tian Sang, Zekang Pan, Pinyu Pan, Jizhe Ying, Yu Liu, Shanyue Jiang, Liangsheng Zhang, Xiaojun ChangSummary statement
Across 38 seed plants, we show that angiosperm NLR immune repertoires descend from a few deep ancestral lineages whose breadth shaped their fate: CNLs repeatedly expanded and diverged in expression, whereas TNLs and RNLs were prone to loss, and the NLR fold remained structurally conserved.