Thomas Lahaye

TALE-independent transcriptional activation of the rice executor gene Xa23 is regulated via histone acetylation during zygote development

These findings suggest that Xa23 is a developmentally regulated gene with a native role during early zygote development, which supports a previously proposed model in which E genes have native functions in development, while fortuitous upstream polymorphisms can create TALE-binding sites that convert them into immune e...