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Title: RICE BLAST RESISTANCE LOCUS PI-CO39(T) IS FLANKED BY CLUSTERS OF SERPIN GENES

Author
item Leong, Sally
item CHAUHAN, RAJINDER - UNIV WISCONSIN
item DURFEE, TIMOTHY - UNIV WISCONSIN
item BLATTNER, FREDERICK - UNIV WISCONSIN
item HOLT, JOHN - UNIV WISCONSIN

Submitted to: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/25/2003
Publication Date: 8/25/2003
Citation: LEONG, S.A., CHAUHAN, R., DURFEE, T., BLATTNER, F., HOLT, J. RICE BLAST RESISTANCE LOCUS PI-CO39(T) IS FLANKED BY CLUSTERS OF SERPIN GENES. 11th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 2003. Abstract p. 67.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: A new rice blast resistance locus, Pi-CO39(t), corresponding to avirulence locus, AVRI-CO39 of Magnaporthe grisea was located on the short arm of rice chromosome 11 (Chauhan et al. 2002 Mol. Genet. & Genom. 267:603). Comparative sequence analysis of blast resistant (CO39-indica) and susceptible (Nipponbare-japonica) rice genotypes at genomic regions co-segregating with Pi-CO39(t) showed that two haplotypes are substantially diverged with respect to relative number, size, orientation and location of NBS-LRR genes. A cluster of 18 NBS-LRR disease resistance-like genes in Nipponbare haplotype (500 kb) and a cluster of 8 NBS-LRR genes in the CO39 haplotype (200 kb) has been identified at the Pi-CO39(t) locus. Both the NBS-LRR gene clusters are flanked by clusters of Serpin genes (serine/cysteine proteinase-inhibitors), which have been implicated as negative regulators of Toll-mediated antifungal defense pathway in Drosophila (Levashina, E A et al. 1999 Science 285:1917). Expression analysis of predicted disease resistance as well as serpin genes was performed on RNA templates isolated from rice leaves. All the NBS-LRR genes were constitutively expressed in both the haplotypes, except the RPR1 (NBR16) gene in Nipponbare, which showed induced expression in response to M. grisea infection. Two serpin genes in CO39 and one in Nipponbare showed induced expression in response to M. grisea infection. Functional analysis of these genes by complementation and gene silencing is underway.