Fusarium head blight (fHB) caused by Fusarium graminearum (Fg) is a devastating disease of crops, especially wheat and barley, resulting in significant yield loss and reduced grain quality. Fg infection leads to the production of mycotoxins, whose consumption is toxic to humans and livestock. the Arabidopsis DMR6 gene encodes a putative 2-oxoglutarate Fe(II)-dependent oxygenase (2OGO) and has been identified as a susceptibility factor to downy mildew. We generated site-specific mutations in Arabidopsis At2OGO by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. The resulting At2OGO knockout (KO) mutants display enhanced resistance to Fg in a detached inflorescence infection assay. Expression profiling of defense genes revealed that impairment of At2OGO function resulted in the upregulation of defense genes that are regulated by salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylene (et) pathways. complementation of the At2OGO-KO lines with a barley (cv. Conlon) orthologue, Hv2OGO, restored susceptibility to Fg. this result indicates that the Hv2OGO gene is functionally equivalent to its Arabidopsis counterpart and, hence, may have a similar role in conditioning susceptibility to fHB in barley. these results provide a molecular basis for proposing 2OGO as a plant immunity suppressor in Arabidopsis and potentially in barley plants and establish a rationale and strategy for enhancing fHB resistance in barley. Fusarium head blight (FHB) or scab is primarily caused by Fusarium graminearum (Fg) (teleomorph Gibberella zeae) and is a devastating disease of cereal crops, particularly wheat, barley and maize. FHB disease has been identified as a major limiting factor in cereal crop production throughout the world 1. Fg is an important hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen whose growth is favored by warm conditions and high humidity and whose dispersal is aided by frequent rainfall during flowering season 2 .The most noticeable disease symptom of FHB is bleaching of floral spikelets, which often leads to cell death or the production of non-viable seeds 3. Since the early 1990s, it has been estimated that FHB infection in grain crops exerts an annual loss of US$3 billion 4,5. In addition to yield reduction, FHB also lowers grain quality by producing mycotoxins, including deoxynivalenol (DON), which accumulate in infected grains 6,7. DON-contaminated grains represent a serious health concern for both humans and livestock. Deployment of FHB-resistant wheat and barley cultivars provides the most direct way to address this problem as it simultaneously reduces yield loss and grain contamination. Genetic engineering offers a promising approach for manipulating plant disease resistance and susceptibility. A number of different transgenic approaches have been explored in order to generate plants that display enhanced FHB resistance or tolerance. These include the overexpression of pathogenesis-related (PR) or defense response genes 8-10 , overexpression of antifungal 11 or antimicrobial peptides 12 introduced from other species, the inhibition of DON synthesis 13-1...