Resolution of K.K.S.I. to Sir Moses Montefiore regarding his visit to Russia

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Subscription by members of K. K. S. I.

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Registry of cases of circumcision by Abraham I. Abrahams in New York

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Names of boys and girls in the K.K.S.I school, March 8, 1795. Report of the School Committee, February 2, 1794

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Letter to trustees of K.K.S.I. from James Foster, regarding his desire to become a Jew

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Letter of I. M. Gomez declining to act as arbitrator

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List of debts to K. K. S. I.

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Letter from the Parnassim of Curaçao to K.K.S.I.

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Copy of letter sent to Benjamin Pereira at Jamaica engaging him as teacher in K. K. S. I.

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Report of meeting of K. K. S. I. regarding appointment of trustees

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Inventory of K.K.S.I. chest, receipted by Alexander Zuntz, with note by Isaac H. Levy

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Letter from Haim Mudahy to K. K. S. I. asking for charity

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Application of Moses Calo, Curaçao for the post of hazan at K.K.S.I.

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Identification of I-7 expands the repertoire of genes for resistance to Fusarium wilt in tomato to three resistance gene classes

The tomato I-3 and I-7 genes confer resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) race 3 and were introgressed into the cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, from the wild relative Solanum pennellii. I-3 has been identified previously on chromosome 7 and encodes an S-receptor-like kinase, but little is known about I-7. Molecular markers have been developed for the marker-assisted breeding of I-3, but none are available for I-7. We used an RNA-seq and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis approach to map I-7 to a small introgression of S. pennellii DNA (c. 210 kb) on chromosome 8, and identified I-7 as a gene encoding a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein (LRR-RLP), thereby expanding the repertoire of resistance protein classes conferring resistance to Fol. Using an eds1 mutant of tomato, we showed that I-7, like many other LRR-RLPs conferring pathogen resistance in tomato, is EDS1 (Enhanced Disease Susceptibility 1) dependent. Using transgenic tomato plants carrying only the I-7 gene for Fol resistance, we found that I-7 also confers resistance to Fol races 1 and 2. Given that Fol race 1 carries Avr1, resistance to Fol race 1 indicates that I-7-mediated resistance, unlike I-2- or I-3-mediated resistance, is not suppressed by Avr1. This suggests that Avr1 is not a general suppressor of Fol resistance in tomato, leading us to hypothesize that Avr1 may be acting against an EDS1-independent pathway for resistance activation. The identification of I-7 has allowed us to develop molecular markers for marker-assisted breeding of both genes currently known to confer Fol race 3 resistance (I-3 and I-7). Given that I-7-mediated resistance is not suppressed by Avr1, I-7 may be a useful addition to I-3 in the tomato breeder's toolbox.

Letter to K. K. S. I. from London

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