Better beans: designer TALE-mediated discovery of common bacterial blight resistance

Sujit Jung Karki

doi:10.1093/jxb/erae497

Better beans: designer TALE-mediated discovery of common bacterial blight resistance

J Exp Bot. 2025 Jan 10;76(2):202-204. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae497.

Author

Sujit Jung Karki¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Gaudin C, Preveaux A, Aubineau N, Le Goff D, Jacques M-A, Chen NWG. 2025. A dTALE approach demonstrates that induction of common bean OVATE Family Protein 7 promotes resistance to common bacterial blight. Journal of Experimental Botany 76, 607–620. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae433

Keywords: Common bacterial blight; OVATE family protein (OFP); disease resistance; transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs).