Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2019, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (2): 265-276.DOI: 10.11983/CBB18194

Special Issue: 逆境生物学专辑 (2019年54卷2期)

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Progress of Cloning and Breeding Application of Blast Resistance Genes in Rice and Avirulence Genes in Blast Fungi

Dewei Yang1,2,Mo Wang1,Libo Han1,Dingzhong Tang1,Shengping Li1,3,*()   

  1. 1 Plant Immunity Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
    2 Institute of Rice, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou 350018, China
    3 Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Breeding by Design, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • Received:2018-09-12 Accepted:2019-01-08 Online:2019-03-01 Published:2019-09-01
  • Contact: Shengping Li

Abstract: Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most destructive diseases of rice worldwide. The identification and utilization of resistance genes are the basis and key factors for breeding resistance rice cultivars. With the availability of genomic sequences of both Oryza sativa and M. oryzae, rice has become one of the model systems for dissecting the molecular interactions between plants and pathogens. In this paper, we summarize the current status of genetics, mapping, cloning and breeding application of the genes resistant to blast. Using bioinformatics analysis, we analyzed the distribution of all NBS-LRR type of disease resistance genes on the 12 chromosomes of the rice genome and also preliminarily summarized the identified avirulence genes as well as interactions between the resistance proteins and the avirulence proteins. Finally, we analyzed and discussed the problems in rice breeding and prospects for research. This review will provide useful suggestions for further research on rice blast resistance breeding and disease resistance mechanisms.

Key words: rice blast, mapping, cloning, breeding application, avirulence genes