PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE LIKE 5-1 is a susceptibility factor to plant viruses.

Protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) catalyze the correct folding of proteins and prevent the aggregation of unfolded or partially folded precursors. Whereas suppression of members of the PDI gene family can delay replication of several human and animal viruses (e.g., HIV), their role in interactions with plant viruses is largely unknown. Here, using a positional cloning strategy we identified variants of PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE LIKE 5-1 (HvPDIL5-1) as the cause of naturally occurring resistance to multiple strains of Bymoviruses. The role of wild-type HvPDIL5-1 in conferring susceptibility was confirmed by targeting induced local lesions in genomes for induced mutant alleles, transgene-induced complementation, and allelism tests using different natural resistance alleles. The geographical distribution of natural genetic variants of HvPDIL5-1 revealed the origin of resistance conferring alleles in domesticated barley in Eastern Asia. Higher sequence diversity was correlated with areas with increased pathogen diversity suggesting adaptive selection for bymovirus resistance. HvPDIL5-1 homologs are highly conserved across species of the plant and animal kingdoms implying that orthologs of HvPDIL5-1 or other closely related members of the PDI gene family may be potential susceptibility factors to viruses in other eukaryotic species.

Genomics-based high-resolution mapping of the BaMMV/BaYMV resistance gene rym11 in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

Soil-borne barley yellow mosaic virus disease, caused by different strains of Barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) and Barley mild mosaic virus (BaMMV), is one of the most important diseases of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in Europe and East Asia. The recessive resistance gene rym11 located in the centromeric region of chromosome 4HL is effective against all so far known strains of BaMMV and BaYMV in Germany. In order to isolate this gene, a high-resolution mapping population (10,204 meiotic events) has been constructed. F2 plants were screened with co-dominant flanking markers and segmental recombinant inbred lines (RILs) were tested for resistance to BaMMV under growth chamber and field conditions. Tightly linked markers were developed by exploiting (1) publicly available barley EST sequences, (2) employing barley synteny to rice, Brachypodium distachyon and sorghum and (3) using next-generation sequencing data of barley. Using this approach, the genetic interval was efficiently narrowed down from the initial 10.72 % recombination to 0.074 % recombination. A marker co-segregating with rym11 was developed providing the basis for gene isolation and efficient marker-assisted selection.