Genetic Analysis of Resistance to Rice Blast: A Study on the Inheritance of Resistance to the Blast Disease Pathogen in an F3 Population of Rice

Blast caused by the fungus Magnaporthae grisea (Herbert) Borr. (anamorphe Pyricularia oryza Cav.) is a serious disease of rice (Oryza sativa L.). One method to overcome this disease is to develop disease resistant cultivars. Due to the genetic plasticity in the pathogen genome, there is a continuous threat to the effectiveness of the developed cultivars. Additional studies of the genetics of resistance, virulence stability and functional genomics are required to accelerate research into understanding the molecular basis of blast disease resistance. In this study, individual plants of the F₃ population derived from Pongsu Seribu 2 and Mahsuri were used for pathogenesis assays and inheritance studies of blast resistance. The study was performed with two of the most virulent Malaysian M. grisea pathotypes: P7.2 and P5.0. For blast screening, plants were scored based on the IRRI Standard Evaluation System (SES). F₃ populations showed a segregation ratio of 3R:1S for pathotype P7.2, indicating that resistance to this pathotype is likely controlled by a single nuclear gene. Chi‐square analysis showed that the F₃ families segregated in a 15R:1S ratio for pathotype P5.0. Therefore, locus interactions or epitasis of blast resistance occur against pathotype P5.0 in the F₃ population derived from Pongsu Seribu 2 and Mahsuri. This can be explained by the presence of two independent dominant genes that when present simultaneously, provide resistance to the M. gresia pathotype P5.0. These results indicated that blast resistance in rice is due to the combined effects of multiple loci with major and minor effects. The genetic data generated here will be useful in the breeding of local cultivars for resistance to field blast. The methodology reported here will facilitate the mapping of genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) underlying the blast resistance trait.     

水稻对叶瘟和穗瘟部分抗性的遗传分析

在一个水稻籼籼交重组自交系群体中,选用由感病株系构成的2个亚群体和2个不同的稻瘟病菌小种,进行了水稻对叶瘟部分抗性的QTL定位,还选用由感病而且抽穗期相近的株系构成的亚群体和另一个病菌小种,进行了水稻对穗瘟部分抗性的QTL定位,将病叶面积百分比(DLA)、病斑大小(LS)和病斑数(LN)作为对叶瘟部分抗性的性状,将病斑长度(LL)和孢子量(CA)作为对穗瘟部分抗性的性状。所构建的图谱包含168个标记。应用QTLMapper 1．01b,共检测到11个表现主效应的QTL和28对双因子互作,有3个表现主效应的QTL参与对同一性状的互作。QTL的主效应对单一性状的贡献率为4．7％～38．8％,而上位性效应对单一性状的贡献率为16．0％～51．7％,QTL的主效应对大多数性状的贡献率小于互作效应,表明互作效应对于部分抗性的重要作用。对穗瘟部分抗性的两个性状LL和CA,所检测到QTL总效应的贡献率分别达到70．6％和82．6％,表明由排除了主效抗病基因的感病株系组成的亚群体适合于进行部分抗性QTL定位。     

Components Analysis of Race Non-Specific Resistance to Blast Disease of Rice Caused by Pyricularia oryzae

A group of 69 rice cultivars with diverse degrees of resistance to rice blast disease (at least in a qualitative sense) was chosen for a detailed study of some components of race non-specific resistance, i.e. relative disease efficiency, latent period, and sporulation capacity. Large differences amongst cultivars were found. The overlapping of the normal curves for the qualitative reaction and the components of race non-specific resistance point out the difficulties of rapid screening for blast resistance by simple observation in the field. One approach to overcome these difficulties could be to use component(s) analysis in the evaluation of rice germplasm to identify parents or progeny having the attributes of race non-specific resistance.     

水稻穗瘟防卫反应相关基因的分离和鉴定

以遗传背景相近、对叶瘟抗性相同但对穗瘟抗性不同的两个水稻株系为材料,利用抑制消减杂交（SSH）技术构建穗瘟抗／感消减cDNA文库,经差异筛选及序列分析,共获得90个独立的差异表达cDNA克隆,根据与它们刚源的基因功能推测,这些克隆可能参与了对病原菌的防卫反应、信号传导和转录等一些重要的生物学过程。利ⅢRT-PCR分析了26个所筛选到的cDNA克隆在抗／感植株接种后的表达,17个基因的表达差异得到验证。对这螳差异表达基因在抗感株系接种后不同时间点的表达谱也进行了RT-PCR的分析。文章首次报道了什关水稻对穗瘟抗性在mRNA水平进行研究,为深入研究水稻对穗瘟抗性的遗传机理打下了基础。     

水稻稻瘟病抗性基因研究概况

稻瘟病是由稻瘟病菌引起的世界性水稻病害,对水稻生产构成严重威胁。分子标记辅助培育持久抗性品种是目前解决稻瘟病抗病品种感病化问题的有效措施。稻瘟病菌-水稻之间的相互作用机理,DNA分子标记的开发与应用,稻瘟病抗性基因定位、克隆与分离及其功能表达等方面的研究进展在很大程度上影响分子标记辅助育种的进程。就此方面的研究概况作一综述。     

Identification of Two Blast Resistance Genes in a Rice Variety, Digu

Blast, caused by Magnaporthe grisea is one of most serious diseases of rice worldwide. A Chinese local rice variety, Digu, with durable blast resistance, is one of the important resources for rice breeding for resistance to blast (M. grisea) in China. The objectives of the current study were to assess the identity of the resistance genes in Digu and to determine the chromosomal location by molecular marker tagging. Two susceptible varieties to blast, Lijiangxintuanheigu (LTH) and Jiangnanxiangnuo (JNXN), a number of different varieties, each containing one blast resistance gene, Pik^s, Pia, Pik, Pi‐b, Pi‐k^p, Pi‐ta², Pi‐ta, Pi‐z, Pi‐i, Pi‐k^m, Pi‐z^t, Pi‐t and Pi‐11, and the progeny populations from the crosses between Digu and each of these varieties were analysed with Chinese blast isolates. We found that the resistance of Digu to each of the two Chinese blast isolates, ZB13 and ZB15, were controlled by two single dominant genes, separately. The two genes are different from the known blast resistance genes and, therefore, designated as Pi‐d(t)1 and Pi‐d(t)2. By using bulked segregation method and molecular marker analysis in corresponding F₂ populations, Pi‐d(t)1 was located on chromosome 2 with a distance of 1.2 and 10.6 cM to restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers G1314A and G45, respectively. And Pi‐d(t)2 was located on chromosome 6 with a distance of 3.2 and 3.4 cM to simple sequence repeat markers RM527 and RM3, respectively. We also developed a novel strategy of resistance gene analogue (RGA) assay with uneven polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to further tag the two genes and successfully identified two RGA markers, SPO01 and SPO03, which were co‐segregated toPi‐d(t)1 and Pi‐d(t)2, respectively, in their corresponding F₂ populations. These results provide essential information for further utilization of the Digu's blast resistance genes in rice disease resistance breeding and positional cloning of these genes.     

A Simple and Accurate Resistance Identification Method of Rice to Neck Blast Disease In Vitro

Twelve rice cultivars with differential resistance to rice blast disease (Magnaporthe oryzae (Hebert) Barr), including Tetep (R), IR36 (MR) and Lijiangxituanhegu (HS), and nine locally planted rice cultivars in Jiangxi helped establish an identification method for rice resistance to neck blast. We describe a new technique of dropping a spore suspension on the panicle segment in vitro (DSSPS). This technique involved rice panicles that were initially 0.5–2 cm in length and then cut into a 7‐ to 8‐cm segment (i.e. an upper node of 1 cm and a lower node of 6–7 cm). The segment was placed into a Petri dish with a stack of sterile water saturated filter paper. The suspension (4 μl 1 × 10⁵spores/ml) was placed at each of three locations on the segment (with an approximate interval of 3 cm). Disease severity was then assessed according to a 0–9 scale after incubating for 9 days with a 12 h/12 h (light/day cycle) at 28°C. Choosing a suitable developmental stage of the rice panicle and blast strains was a key to evaluate resistance accurately. DSSPS is a simple and accurate method of identifying rice resistance to neck blast as compared to injecting the spore suspension into the rice panicle in vivo and resistance identification in natural nurseries. It is stressed that at least 20 single‐spore strains are needed to accurately assess rice resistance to neck blast. We tested 1005 rice cultivars for neck blast resistance in Jiangxi province during 2010–2015, which showed an accuracy of 85.77% by DSSPS as compared with natural nursery data.     

利用分子标记辅助选择改良珍汕97的稻瘟病抗性

利用回交育种中产生的回交群体，结合前人的研究结果构建了Pi1基因区域的局部分子标记连锁图，通过BC1F2家系的接种结果判断其基因型。将Pi1定位在RFLP标记RZ536与SSR标记RM144之间，图距分别为9．7cM、6．8cM，从而建立了一套完整的以PCR为基础的分子标记辅助选择体系。通过分子标记和抗性验证两种选择方式相结合，经过三代回交将Pi1区段快速导入受体亲本珍汕97B中。在BC3F1中利用15条ISSR引物扩增的167条随机分布在基因组中的多态性带筛选背景，得到4个背景较好的单株。经过纯合筛选及抗性验证后共得到17个带有抗性基因Pi1的改良珍汕97株系。试验表明微卫星标记在正向选择、负向选择及背景选择中都起到极大的作用。     

云南疣粒野生稻稻瘟病抗性

野生稻(Oryza rufipogo)保存有许多栽培稻(O. sativa)不具备或已经消失的优异基因资源, 是扩大栽培稻遗传背景、改良产量与品质、提高抗病虫害及抗逆境能力的重要基因库。疣粒野生稻(O. meyeriana)是中国3种野生稻资源之一, 主要分布在云南。为进一步了解其稻瘟病抗性, 首先利用来自不同稻作区的稻瘟病菌株, 通过注射接种法对疣粒野生稻进行系统的稻瘟病抗性鉴定, 发现疣粒野生稻对接种的所有稻瘟病菌株都感病。进一步采用3'/5' RACE方法, 从疣粒野生稻中克隆了水稻同源基因Pid2和Pid3, 并构建过表达转基因株系对基因功能进行了研究。结果表明, Pid2和Pid3与疣粒野生稻中同源基因间在DNA和氨基酸水平上有较大的序列差异, 过表达转基因的日本晴植株对稻瘟病菌的敏感性与对照相似。推测疣粒野生稻在自然接种条件下, 表现出的抗稻瘟病表型很可能是其旱生叶片结构特征形成了对稻瘟病菌侵染的天然屏障。对控制疣粒野生稻这一类性状基因资源的挖掘和利用, 有利于优良抗性水稻品种的培育。研究结果为疣粒野生稻的研究利用提供了新信息和新思路。     

Rice varieties with resistance to multiple races of Magnaporthe oryzae offer opportunities to manage rice blast in Australia

Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is the most destructive disease of rice worldwide. Development of resistant varieties is considered as the most cost‐effective and sustainable way to manage rice blast. However, there remains a lack of knowledge about the resistance of rice varieties to blast disease in Australia. This study was conducted to determine if there was any resistance existing among the rice varieties grown in Australia to M. oryzae isolates from this country that belong to different races. There was a resistant reaction of the variety SHZ‐2 to all the five races of IA‐1, IA‐3, IA‐63, IB‐3 and IB‐59, with a percent disease index (%DI) less than 40. Varieties NTR587, BR‐IRGA‐409, Ceysvoni and Rikuto Norin 20 showed a resistant reaction to races IA‐3, IA‐63, IB‐3 and IB‐59; and the variety Kyeema exhibited a resistant reaction to races IA‐3, IB‐3 and IB‐59. For the races IA‐1 and IB‐59 with more than one isolate, varieties with differential disease reactions across different isolates belonging to the same race were also revealed: five varieties, Langi, Opus, Sherpa, Viet 1 and Topaz, exhibited differential disease reactions to the three IA‐1 isolates; 10 varieties showed differential disease reactions to the four IB‐59 isolates; in addition, the varieties that had differential disease reactions to the IA‐1 isolates also exhibited differential disease reactions to the IB‐59 isolates of race. This study provides valuable resistance sources for breeding programmes to develop rice varieties with resistance to multiple races of M. oryzae in Australia.     

海南普通野生稻稻瘟病的抗性鉴定与评价

在苗期应用自然诱发鉴定法对海南普通野生稻(Oryza rufipogonGriff.)41个居群的410份材料进行了2年的稻瘟病(rice blast)抗性鉴定,结果表明:经过初鉴和复鉴,410份海南普通野生稻中有21份表现高抗,占5.1%,117份表现抗,占28.5%,说明海南普通野生稻具有较好的稻瘟病抗性。     

水稻抗衰老IPT基因与抗白叶枯病基因Xa23的聚合研究

以转抑制衰老有关的异戊烯基转移酶(IPT)基因株系GC-1、携带抗白叶枯病基因Xa23的“CBB23”和抗稻瘟病水稻品种“合系15号”为供体．采用分子标记辅助选择与生物学鉴定相结合的方法,将IPT基因与Xa23及抗稻瘟病基因进行聚合。在3个复交组合中获得了17株聚合IPT基因与Xa23基因的植株,用这些植株与两系杂交稻亲本9311、E32、培矮64S及W9834S进行杂交和回交,经PCR分子检测和抗白叶枯病、抗稻瘟病鉴定和细胞分裂素含量的测定,最终在4个BC,回交组合“(9311／／／合系15／CBB23／／GC-1)X9311”、“(E32／／／合系15／CBB23／／GC-1)XE32”、“(培矮64S／／／合系15／CBB23／／GC-1)X培矮64S”和“(GC-1／CBB23／／W9834S／合系15)XW9834S”中获得了17株携带IPT基因与Xa23基因的BC1F1植株,这些植株对来自北方稻区21个稻瘟病菌系全部表现为抗。携带IPT基因的抗病植株再与杂交稻亲本进行回交．在2个BC2回交组合“[(9311／／／合系15／CBB23／／GC-1)X9311]X9311’’和“[(E32／／／合系15／CBB23／／GC-1)XE32]XE32”中获得了7株携带IPT基因与Xa23基因的植株,这些植株再经过1—2代回交和自交,即可用于杂交稻育种。     

利用分子标记辅助选择改良珍汕97的稻瘟病抗性

利用回交育种中产生的回交群体,结合前人的研究结果构建了Pil基因区域的局部分子标记连锁图,通过BC1F2家系的接种结果判断其基因型.将Pi1定位在RFLP标记RZ536与SSR标记RM144之间,图距分别为9.7cM、6.8 cM,从而建立了一套完整的以PCR为基础的分子标记辅助选择体系.通过分子标记和抗性验证两种选择方式相结合,经过三代回交将Pi1区段快速导入受体亲本珍汕97B中.在BC3F1中利用15条ISSR引物扩增的167条随机分布在基因组中的多态性带筛选背景,得到4个背景较好的单株.经过纯合筛选及抗性验证后共得到17个带有抗性基因Pi1的改良珍汕97株系.试验表明微卫星标记在正向选择、负向选择及背景选择中都起到极大的作用.     

Introgression of Pi2 and Pi5 Genes for Blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) Resistance in Rice and Field Evaluation of Introgression Lines for Resistance and Yield Traits

Blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is the most devastating disease causing significant loss in rice production. The destructive nature of the disease is mainly due to the genetic plasticity of M. oryzae which complicates the breeding strategies. Blast can be effectively managed by the deployment of R genes. In this study, broad‐spectrum blast resistance genes Pi2 and Pi5 were introgressed independently into popular but blast susceptible rice variety, Samba Mahsuri (BPT5204) by applying marker‐assisted backcross breeding approach. Tightly linked markers AP5930 for Pi2 and 40N23r for Pi5 gene were used in foreground selection. Background selection helped to identify the lines with maximum recovery of recurrent parent genome (RPG). The RPG recovery in Pi2 introgression lines was up to 90.17 and 91.46% in Pi5 lines. Homozygous introgression lines in BC₃F₄ generation carrying Pi2 and Pi5 gene were field evaluated for blast resistance, yield per se and yield‐related traits. The lines showed resistance to leaf and neck blast in multilocation field evaluation. Improved BPT5204 lines with improvement for blast resistance were on par with original BPT5204 in terms of grain yield and grain features.     

Characterization of Rice Blast Isolates by the Differential System and their Application for Mapping a Resistance Gene,Pi19(t)

To facilitate resistance gene characterization in the present study, the pathogenicities of newly collected blast isolates from rice fields in the Philippines were characterized using international blast differential varieties consisting of 31 monogenic lines that target 24 resistance genes. To classify and designate the blast isolates, we used a new international blast designation system, which has been proposed as a suitable naming system for comparing blast races among different studies. A total of 23 rice blast isolates collected from the Philippines were classified into 16 pathotypes, which showed reaction patterns different from those seen in the standard isolates. Among the blast pathotypes, 11 had differentiating ability for four Pik alleles (Pik, Pik‐m, Pik‐h, and Pik‐p) and Pi1, whereas the standard blast isolates from the Philippines were not able to differentiate these genes. In addition, several blast isolates were avirulent to IRBLt‐K59, IRBL19‐A, and Lijiangxintuanheigu, although the standard differential blast isolates were virulent to these lines. Moreover, two blast isolates were virulent to a monogenic line, IRBL9‐W, which harbours Pi9 and was resistant to all standard differential blast isolates. By using the isolates avirulent to IRBL19‐A, Pi19(t) was successfully mapped in the centromeric region on chromosome 12 with simple sequence repeat markers RM27937 and RM1337. These markers are useful for marker‐assisted Pi19(t) introgression worldwide.     

受稻瘟病原真菌侵染的水稻早期表达基因的cDNA克隆

以亲和性与非亲和性两个稻瘟病原真菌小种（Ｍａｇｎａｐｏｒｔｈｅ ｇｒｉｓｅａ（Ｈｅｂｅｒｔ）Ｂａｒｒ）感染同一水稻品种（Ｏｒｙｚａｓａｔｉｖａ Ｌ．ｃｖ．Ｓｈｅｎｘｉａｎｇｇｅｎｇ Ｎｏ．４）的植株产生明显不同的致病和抗病反应,由此建立了有效的感染系统。应用差异显示技术获得两个在侵染早期具有诱导表达特征的ｃＤＮＡ克隆,其中一个同时在致病和抗病反应中进行早期诱导表达,但在抗病反应中的诱导相对早于其在     

Differential sensitivity of callus derived from immature panicles of rice cultivars to the non-specific toxin of Pyricularia grisea

An in vitro screening procedure was adapted to study the sensitivity of callus to the toxin picolinic acid of Pyricularia grisea in four rice cultivars. The lethal dose LD₅₀ was determined on the basis of probit-log dosage response curve. The values of LD₅₀ were 10, 51, 129 and 151 ppm for Tetep, Newbonnet, Labelle and M 201, respectively. The callus culture of cultivar Tetep, with a known broad spectrum of resistance, exhibited a high toxin sensitivity whereas the highly susceptible cultivar M 201 showed low sensitivity indicating the absence of relation between host plant specific resistance to blast and resistance of the callus to toxin. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Molecular Cloning of Early-expressed cDNAs from Rice in Response to Infection by Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea

Compatible and incompatible reactions in rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Shenxianggen No.4) were resulted from inoculation with two different virulent races of rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr), and thus an effective infecting system was established between rice plants and the rice blast pathogen. Two cDNA clones that showed induced and temporal patterns in expression in the very early stage in response to infection of the fungus were obtained from the plants by use of differential display. Of the two cDNA clones, Fastresp-a was induced to express in both compatible and incompatible interactions although it was expressed earlier in the former reaction. The second one, Fastresp-b, was only expressed in incompatible interaction. Southern blot analysis of the rice genomic DNA indicated that both of the two clones were from genome of the plant. No significant homology to the two genes was found from the rice gene database. This suggested that they were novel genes in rice and may play important roles in rice resistant response to infection of rice blast fungus.     

Conventional Breeding and Molecular Markers for Blast Disease Resistance in Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.)

Monogenic lines, which carried 23 genes for blast resistance were tested and used donors to transfer resistance genes by crossing method. The results under blast nursery revealed that 9 genes from 23 genes were susceptible to highly susceptible under the three locations (Sakha, Gemmeza, and Zarzoura in Egypt); Pia, Pik, Pik-p, Piz-t, Pita, Pi b, Pi, Pi 19 and Pi 20. While, the genes Pii, Pik-s, Pik-h, Pi z, Piz-5, Pi sh, Pi 3, Pi 1, Pi 5, Pi 7, Pi 9, Pi 12, Pikm and Pita-2 were highly resistant at the same locations. Clustering analysis confirmed the results, which divided into two groups; the first one included all the susceptible genes, while the second one included the resistance genes. In the greenhouse test, the reaction pattern of five races produced 100% resistance under artificial inoculation with eight genes showing complete resistance to all isolates. The completely resistant genes: Pii, Pik-s, Piz, Piz-5 (=bi2) (t), Pita (=Pi4) (t), Pita, Pi b and Pi1 as well as clustering analysis confirmed the results. In the F₁ crosses, the results showed all the 25 crosses were resistant for leaf blast disease under field conditions. While, the results in F₂ population showed seven crosses with segregation ratio of 15 (R):1 (S), two cross gave segregated ratio of 3 R:1 S and one gave 13:3. For the identi- fication of blast resistance genes in the parental lines, the marker K3959, linked to Pik-s gene and the variety IRBLKS-F5 carry this gene, which was from the monogenic line. The results showed that four genotypes; Sakha 105, Sakha 103, Sakha 106 and IRBLKS-F5 were carrying Pik-s gene, while was absent in the Sakha 101, Sakha 104, IRBL5-M, IRBL9-W, IRBLTACP1 and IRBL9-W(R) genotypes. As for Pi 5 gene, the results showed that it was present in Sakha 103 and Sakha 104 varieties and absent in the rest of the genotypes. In addition, Pita-Pita- 2 gene was found in the three Egyptian genotypes (Sakha 105, Sakha 101 and Sakha 104) plus IRBLTACP1 monogenetic. In F2 generation, six populations were used to study the inheritance of blast resistance and specific primers to confirm the ratio and identify the resistance genes. However, the ratios in molecular markers were the same of the ratio under field evaluation in the most population studies. These findings would facilitate in breeding programs for gene pyramiding and gene accumulation to produce durable resistance for blast using those genotypes.     

The Supernatant of a Conidial Suspension of Magnaporthe oryzae Contains a Factor that Promotes the Infection of Rice Plants

Many factors produced by the pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae enhance its ability to infect rice. We found a novel infection-promoting activity in the supernatant of a conidia suspension (SCS) of M . oryzae . The addition of SCS promoted the invasion of excised rice leaf sheaths by infectious hyphae. The activity was heat-stable and was found in SCSs from five virulent and three avirulent isolates of M . oryzae on the rice cv. Nipponbare ( Pia ). The effect was exclusively detected in compatible interactions. The infection of rice plants by non-rice blast fungi was not enhanced by SCS. These results suggest that SCS includes a heat-stable factor(s) that promotes M . oryzae infection during compatible interactions.