1 Short title: Resistance gene analogs in the Brassicaceae 1 2 Resistance gene analogs in the Brassicaceae: Identification, 3 characterization, distribution, and evolution 4 Soodeh Tirnaz 1 , Philipp E. Bayer 1 , Fabian Inturrisi 1 , Fangning Zhang 1 , Hua Yang 1,2 , Aria 5 Dolatabadian 1 , Ting X. Neik 1 , Anita Severn-Ellis 1 , Dhwani A. Patel 1 , Muhammad I. 6 Ibrahim 1 , Aneeta Pradhan 1 , David Edwards 1 , Jacqueline Batley* 1 7 1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia 8 2 School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia 9 10 One-sentence summary: A resource of resistance genes analogs within Brassicaceae 11 species identifies functional resistance genes to improve plant breeding programmes. 12 Author Contributions: S.T., P.E.B., D.E. and J.B. conceived the study. S.T. and P.E.B. 13 performed data analysis. S.T. wrote the manuscript. P.E.B., D.E. and J.B. commented and 14 revised the manuscript. F.I., F.Z., H.Y., A.D., A.S.E., T.X.N., A.P., D.A.P., M.I.I. 15 assisted with the identification of resistance genes. All authors approved the final version. 16 Funding information: S.T. is supported by University of Western Australia and Grains 17 Research and Development Corporation (No. 9175960). This work was funded by 18 Australian Research Council Projects FT130100604, DP1601004497, LP140100537, 19 LP160100030. 20 * Corresponding author: Email: jacqueline.batley@uwa.edu.au 21 Plant Physiology Preview. Published on August 12, 2020, as DOI:10.1104/pp.20.00835 Copyright 2020 by the American Society of Plant Biologists https://plantphysiol.org Downloaded on November 5, 2020. - Published by Copyright (c) 2020 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.