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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 131, Issue 2, Pages 221-235Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10658-011-9801-7
Keywords
Rice; OsNPR1/NH1; Basal resistance; Rice blast; Magnaporthe oryzae; PR genes
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2006CB101902]
- National Transgenic Plant Research and Commercialization [J99-A-029, JY04-A-01]
- Foundation for University Key Teachers by the Ministry of Education of China [2000-65]
- Guangxi Natural Science Foundation [0007006]
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Rice blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, is a major threat to worldwide rice production. Plant basal resistance is activated by virulent pathogens in susceptible host plants. OsNPR1/NH1, a rice homolog of NPR1 that is the key regulator of systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana, was shown to be involved in the resistance of rice to bacterial blight disease caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and benzothiadiazole (BTH)-induced blast resistance. However, the role of OsNPR1/NH1 in rice basal resistance to blast fungus M. oryzae remains uncertain. In this study, the OsNPR1 gene was isolated and identified from rice cultivar Gui99. Transgenic Gui99 rice plants harbouring OsNPR1-RNAi were generated, and the OsNPR1-RNAi plants were significantly more susceptible to M. oryzae infection. Northern hybridization analysis showed that the expression of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes, such as PR-1a, PBZ1, CHI, GLU, and PAL, was significantly suppressed in the OsNPR1-RNAi plants. Consistently, overexpression of OsNPR1 in rice cultivars Gui99 and TP309 conferred significantly enhanced resistance to M. oryzae and increased expression of the above-mentioned PR genes. These results revealed that OsNPR1 is involved in rice basal resistance to the blast pathogen M. oryzae, thus providing new insights into the role of OsNPR1 in rice disease resistance.
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