Liu Z, Zhu Y, Shi H, Qiu J, Ding X, Kou Y.
Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Oct 28;22(21):11658
Abstract
Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. However, stable rice production is constrained by various diseases, in particular rice blast, sheath blight, bacterial blight, and virus diseases. Breeding and cultivation of resistant rice varieties is the most effective method to control the infection of pathogens. Exploitation and utilization of the genetic determinants of broad-spectrum resistance represent a desired way to improve the resistance of susceptible rice varieties. Recently, researchers have focused on the identification of rice broad-spectrum disease resistance genes, which include R genes, defense-regulator genes, and quantitative trait loci (QTL) against two or more pathogen species or many isolates of the same pathogen species. The cloning of broad-spectrum disease resistance genes and understanding their underlying mechanisms not only provide new genetic resources for breeding broad-spectrum rice varieties, but also promote the development of new disease resistance breeding strategies, such as editing susceptibility and executor R genes. In this review, the most recent advances in the identification of broad-spectrum disease resistance genes in rice and their application in crop improvement through biotechnology approaches during the past 10 years are summarized.
See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34769087/
![Recent Progress in Rice Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance.](/Images_upload/images/New Picture (14)(144).png)
Figure 1. R and defense regulator genes with broad-spectrum disease resistance identified in past 10 years. The R genes are represented in bold black font. The black dots on each chromosome represent centromeres.
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