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Carrillo MGC, Martin F, Variar M, Bhatt JC, L Perez-Quintero A, Leung H, Leach JE, Vera Cruz CM. Accumulating candidate genes for broad-spectrum resistance to rice blast in a drought-tolerant rice cultivar. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21502. [PMID: 34728643 PMCID: PMC8563964 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00759-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Biotic stresses, including diseases, severely affect rice production, compromising producers’ ability to meet increasing global consumption. Understanding quantitative responses for resistance to diverse pathogens can guide development of reliable molecular markers, which, combined with advanced backcross populations, can accelerate the production of more resistant varieties. A candidate gene (CG) approach was used to accumulate different disease QTL from Moroberekan, a blast-resistant rice variety, into Vandana, a drought-tolerant variety. The advanced backcross progeny were evaluated for resistance to blast and tolerance to drought at five sites in India and the Philippines. Gene-based markers were designed to determine introgression of Moroberekan alleles for 11 CGs into the progeny. Six CGs, coding for chitinase, HSP90, oxalate oxidase, germin-like proteins, peroxidase and thaumatin-like protein, and 21 SSR markers were significantly associated with resistance to blast across screening sites. Multiple lines with different combinations, classes and numbers of CGs were associated with significant levels of race non-specific resistance to rice blast and sheath blight. Overall, the level of resistance effective in multiple locations was proportional to the number of CG alleles accumulated in advanced breeding lines. These disease resistant lines maintained tolerance to drought stress at the reproductive stage under blast disease pressure.
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- Maria Gay C Carrillo
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, 307 University Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1177, USA
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, PO Box 48, Hazaribag, 825 301, India
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- ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India
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- Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, 307 University Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1177, USA
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, 307 University Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1177, USA.
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines.
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Imam J, Shukla P, Mandal NP, Variar M. Microbial Interactions in Plants: Perspectives and Applications of Proteomics. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2017; 18:956-965. [DOI: 10.2174/1389203718666161122103731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Revised: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Jahangir Imam
- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRRI), Hazaribagh-825301, Jharkhand, India
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- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak-124001, Haryana, India
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- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRRI), Hazaribagh-825301, Jharkhand, India
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- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRRI), Hazaribagh-825301, Jharkhand, India
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Imam J, Mandal NP, Variar M, Shukla P. Allele Mining and Selective Patterns of Pi9 Gene in a Set of Rice Landraces from India. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:1846. [PMID: 28018384 PMCID: PMC5156731 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Allelic variants of the broad-spectrum blast resistance gene, Pi9 (nucleotide binding site-leucine-rich repeat region) have been analyzed in Indian rice landraces. They were selected from the list of 338 rice landraces phenotyped in the rice blast nursery at central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, Hazaribag. Six of them were further selected on the basis of their resistance and susceptible pattern for virulence analysis and selective pattern study of Pi9 gene. The sequence analysis and phylogenetic study illustrated that such sequences are vastly homologous and clustered into two groups. All the blast resistance Pi9 alleles were grouped into one cluster, whereas Pi9 alleles of susceptible landraces formed another cluster even though these landraces have a low level of DNA polymorphisms. A total number of 136 polymorphic sites comprising of transitions, transversions, and insertion and deletions (InDels) were identified in the 2.9 kb sequence of Pi9 alleles. Lower variation in the form of mutations (77) (Transition + Transversion), and InDels (59) were observed in the Pi9 alleles isolated from rice landraces studied. The results showed that the Pi9 alleles of the selected rice landraces were less variable, suggesting that the rice landraces would have been exposed to less number of pathotypes across the country. The positive Tajima's D (0.33580), P > 0.10 (not significant) was observed among the seven rice landraces, which suggests the balancing selection of Pi9 alleles. The value of synonymous substitution (-0.43337) was less than the non-synonymous substitution (0.78808). The greater non-synonymous substitution than the synonymous means that the coding region, mainly the leucine-rich repeat domain was under diversified selection. In this study, the Pi9 gene has been subjected to balancing selection with low nucleotide diversity which is different from the earlier reports, this may be because of the closeness of the rice landraces, cultivated in the same region, and under low pathotype pressure.
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- Jahangir Imam
- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research StationHazaribagh, India
- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand UniversityRohtak, India
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- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research StationHazaribagh, India
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- Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research StationHazaribagh, India
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- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand UniversityRohtak, India
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Khanna A, Sharma V, Ellur RK, Shikari AB, Gopala Krishnan S, Singh UD, Prakash G, Sharma TR, Rathour R, Variar M, Prashanthi SK, Nagarajan M, Vinod KK, Bhowmick PK, Singh NK, Prabhu KV, Singh BD, Singh AK. Development and evaluation of near-isogenic lines for major blast resistance gene(s) in Basmati rice. Theor Appl Genet 2015; 128:1243-59. [PMID: 25869921 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2502-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/20/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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A set of NILs carrying major blast resistance genes in a Basmati rice variety has been developed. Also, the efficacy of pyramids over monogenic NILs against rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae has been demonstrated. Productivity and quality of Basmati rice is severely affected by rice blast disease. Major genes and QTLs conferring resistance to blast have been reported only in non-Basmati rice germplasm. Here, we report incorporation of seven blast resistance genes from the donor lines DHMASQ164-2a (Pi54, Pi1, Pita), IRBLz5-CA (Pi2), IRBLb-B (Pib), IRBL5-M (Pi5) and IRBL9-W (Pi9) into the genetic background of an elite Basmati rice variety Pusa Basmati 1 (PB1). A total of 36 near-isogenic lines (NILs) comprising of 14 monogenic, 16 two-gene pyramids and six three-gene pyramids were developed through marker-assisted backcross breeding (MABB). Foreground, recombinant and background selection was used to identify the plants with target gene(s), minimize the linkage drag and increase the recurrent parent genome (RPG) recovery (93.5-98.6 %), respectively, in the NILs. Comparative analysis performed using 50,051 SNPs and 500 SSR markers revealed that the SNPs provided better insight into the RPG recovery. Most of the monogenic NILs showed comparable performance in yield and quality, concomitantly, Pusa1637-18-7-6-20 (Pi9), was significantly superior in yield and stable across four different environments as compared to recurrent parent (RP) PB1. Further, among the pyramids, Pusa1930-12-6 (Pi2+Pi5) showed significantly higher yield and Pusa1633-7-8-53-6-8 (Pi54+Pi1+Pita) was superior in cooking quality as compared to RP PB1. The NILs carrying gene Pi9 were found to be the most effective against the concoction of virulent races predominant in the hotspot locations for blast disease. Conversely, when analyzed under artificial inoculation, three-gene pyramids expressed enhanced resistance as compared to the two-gene and monogenic NILs.
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- Apurva Khanna
- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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Thakur S, Singh PK, Das A, Rathour R, Variar M, Prashanthi SK, Singh AK, Singh UD, Chand D, Singh NK, Sharma TR. Extensive sequence variation in rice blast resistance gene Pi54 makes it broad spectrum in nature. Front Plant Sci 2015; 6:345. [PMID: 26052332 PMCID: PMC4440361 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Rice blast resistant gene, Pi54 cloned from rice line, Tetep, is effective against diverse isolates of Magnaporthe oryzae. In this study, we prospected the allelic variants of the dominant blast resistance gene from a set of 92 rice lines to determine the nucleotide diversity, pattern of its molecular evolution, phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary dynamics, and to develop allele specific markers. High quality sequences were generated for homologs of Pi54 gene. Using comparative sequence analysis, InDels of variable sizes in all the alleles were observed. Profiling of the selected sites of SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) and amino acids (N sites ≥ 10) exhibited constant frequency distribution of mutational and substitutional sites between the resistance and susceptible rice lines, respectively. A total of 50 new haplotypes based on the nucleotide polymorphism was also identified. A unique haplotype (H_3) was found to be linked to all the resistant alleles isolated from indica rice lines. Unique leucine zipper and tyrosine sulfation sites were identified in the predicted Pi54 proteins. Selection signals were observed in entire coding sequence of resistance alleles, as compared to LRR domains for susceptible alleles. This is a maiden report of extensive variability of Pi54 alleles in different landraces and cultivated varieties, possibly, attributing broad-spectrum resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae. The sequence variation in two consensus region: 163 and 144 bp were used for the development of allele specific DNA markers. Validated markers can be used for the selection and identification of better allele(s) and their introgression in commercial rice cultivars employing marker assisted selection.
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- Shallu Thakur
- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa CampusNew Delhi, India
- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh UniversityShimla, India
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- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa CampusNew Delhi, India
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- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa CampusNew Delhi, India
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural UniversityPalampur, India
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, Central Rice Research InstituteHazaribagh, India
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- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Agricultural SciencesDharwad, India
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- Indian Agricultural Research InstituteNew Delhi, India
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- Indian Agricultural Research InstituteNew Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh UniversityShimla, India
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- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa CampusNew Delhi, India
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- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa CampusNew Delhi, India
- *Correspondence: Tilak R. Sharma, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, LBS Building, New Delhi-110012, India ;
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Imam J, Alam S, Mandal NP, Maiti D, Variar M, Shukla P. Molecular Diversity and Mating Type Distribution of the Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in North-East and Eastern India. Indian J Microbiol 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12088-014-0504-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Swamy BPM, Ahmed HU, Henry A, Mauleon R, Dixit S, Vikram P, Tilatto R, Verulkar SB, Perraju P, Mandal NP, Variar M, Robin S, Chandrababu R, Singh ON, Dwivedi JL, Das SP, Mishra KK, Yadaw RB, Aditya TL, Karmakar B, Satoh K, Moumeni A, Kikuchi S, Leung H, Kumar A. Genetic, physiological, and gene expression analyses reveal that multiple QTL enhance yield of rice mega-variety IR64 under drought. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62795. [PMID: 23667521 PMCID: PMC3648568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Background Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a highly drought sensitive crop, and most semi dwarf rice varieties suffer severe yield losses from reproductive stage drought stress. The genetic complexity of drought tolerance has deterred the identification of agronomically relevant quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be deployed to improve rice yield under drought in rice. Convergent evidence from physiological characterization, genetic mapping, and multi-location field evaluation was used to address this challenge. Methodology/Principal Findings Two pairs of backcross inbred lines (BILs) from a cross between drought-tolerant donor Aday Sel and high-yielding but drought-susceptible rice variety IR64 were produced. From six BC4F3 mapping populations produced by crossing the +QTL BILs with the −QTL BILs and IR64, four major-effect QTL - one each on chromosomes 2, 4, 9, and 10 - were identified. Meta-analysis of transcriptome data from the +QTL/−QTL BILs identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) significantly associated with QTL on chromosomes 2, 4, 9, and 10. Physiological characterization of BILs showed increased water uptake ability under drought. The enrichment of DEGs associated with root traits points to differential regulation of root development and function as contributing to drought tolerance in these BILs. BC4F3-derived lines with the QTL conferred yield advantages of 528 to 1875 kg ha−1 over IR64 under reproductive-stage drought stress in the targeted ecosystems of South Asia. Conclusions/Significance Given the importance of rice in daily food consumption and the popularity of IR64, the BC4F3 lines with multiple QTL could provide higher livelihood security to farmers in drought-prone environments. Candidate genes were shortlisted for further characterization to confirm their role in drought tolerance. Differential yield advantages of different combinations of the four QTL reported here indicate that future research should include optimizing QTL combinations in different genetic backgrounds to maximize yield advantage under drought.
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Raman A, Verulkar S, Mandal N, Variar M, Shukla V, Dwivedi J, Singh B, Singh O, Swain P, Mall A, Robin S, Chandrababu R, Jain A, Ram T, Hittalmani S, Haefele S, Piepho HP, Kumar A. Drought yield index to select high yielding rice lines under different drought stress severities. Rice (N Y) 2012; 5:31. [PMID: 27234249 PMCID: PMC5520844 DOI: 10.1186/1939-8433-5-31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Drought is the most severe abiotic stress reducing rice yield in rainfed drought prone ecosystems. Variation in intensity and severity of drought from season to season and place to place requires cultivation of rice varieties with different level of drought tolerance in different areas. Multi environment evaluation of breeding lines helps breeder to identify appropriate genotypes for areas prone to similar level of drought stress. From a set of 129 advanced rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeding lines evaluated under rainfed drought-prone situations at three locations in eastern India from 2005 to 2007, a subset of 39 genotypes that were tested for two or more years was selected to develop a drought yield index (DYI) and mean yield index (MYI) based on yield under irrigated, moderate and severe reproductive-stage drought stress to help breeders select appropriate genotypes for different environments. RESULTS ARB 8 and IR55419-04 recorded the highest drought yield index (DYI) and are identified as the best drought-tolerant lines. The proposed DYI provides a more effective assessment as it is calculated after accounting for a significant genotype x stress-level interaction across environments. For rainfed areas with variable frequency of drought occurrence, Mean yield index (MYI) along with deviation in performance of genotypes from currently cultivated popular varieties in all situations helps to select genotypes with a superior performance across irrigated, moderate and severe reproductive-stage drought situations. IR74371-70-1-1 and DGI 75 are the two genotypes identified to have shown a superior performance over IR64 and MTU1010 under all situations. CONCLUSION For highly drought-prone areas, a combination of DYI with deviation in performance of genotypes under irrigated situations can enable breeders to select genotypes with no reduction in yield under favorable environments compared with currently cultivated varieties. For rainfed areas with variable frequency of drought stress, use of MYI together with deviation in performance of genotypes under different situations as compared to presently cultivated varieties will help breeders to select genotypes with superior performance under all situations.
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- Anitha Raman
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRURRS), Hazaribag, India
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRURRS), Hazaribag, India
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRURRS), Hazaribag, India
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- Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology (NDUAT), Faizabad, India
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- Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Ranchi, India
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- Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack, India
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- Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack, India
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India
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- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India
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- Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad, India
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Bioinformatics Unit, Universitaet Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Maiti D, Toppo NN, Variar M. Integration of crop rotation and arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) inoculum application for enhancing AM activity to improve phosphorus nutrition and yield of upland rice (Oryza sativa L.). Mycorrhiza 2011; 21:659-667. [PMID: 21448812 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-011-0376-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major crop of Eastern India grown during the wet season (June/July to September/October). Aerobic soils of the upland rice system, which are acidic and inherently phosphorus (P) limiting, support native arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) activity. Attempts were made to improve P nutrition of upland rice by exploiting this natural situation through different crop rotations and application of AM fungal (AMF) inoculum. The effect of a 2-year crop rotation of maize (Zea mays L.) followed by horse gram (Dolichos biflorus L.) in the first year and upland rice in the second year on native AM activity was compared to three existing systems, with and without application of a soil-root-based inoculum. Integration of AM fungal inoculation with the maize-horse gram rotation had synergistic/additive effects in terms of AMF colonization (+22.7 to +42.7%), plant P acquisition (+11.2 to +23.7%), and grain yield of rice variety Vandana (+25.7 to +34.3%).
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- Dipankar Maiti
- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, (Central Rice Research Institute, ICAR), PB 48, Hazaribag, 825 301, Jharkhand, India.
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, (Central Rice Research Institute, ICAR), PB 48, Hazaribag, 825 301, Jharkhand, India
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- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, (Central Rice Research Institute, ICAR), PB 48, Hazaribag, 825 301, Jharkhand, India
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Maiti D, Variar M, Singh RK. Optimizing tillage schedule for maintaining activity of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal population in a rainfed upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) agro-ecosystem. Mycorrhiza 2011; 21:167-71. [PMID: 20544229 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-010-0324-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2010] [Accepted: 05/24/2010] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Rainfed uplands in India are predominantly mono-cropped with rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the wet season (June/July to September/October) and grown under aerobic soil conditions. The remaining fallow period (winter followed by summer) of about 8-9 months leads to natural crash in the population of native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the soil. Attempts have been made to minimize this population crash by reducing soil disturbance-induced deleterious effects on native AMF activity of improperly scheduled off-season tillage, an agronomic recommendation for weed and disease (soil-borne) management, practiced by the upland farmers. On-farm (farmers' field) evaluation of effects of all suitable off-season tillage schedule combinations on rice during wet seasons of 2004, 2005, and 2006 revealed that a maximum of two off-season tillage schedules with a minimum gap of 13 weeks between them minimized the population crash of native AMF with a concomitant increase in phosphorus (P) uptake and grain yield of upland rice (variety "Vandana").
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- D Maiti
- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (Central Rice Research Institute), PB 48, Hazaribag 825 301, Jharkhand, India.
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Wu JL, Sinha PK, Variar M, Zheng KL, Leach JE, Courtois B, Leung H. Association between molecular markers and blast resistance in an advanced backcross population of rice. Theor Appl Genet 2004; 108:1024-32. [PMID: 15067388 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-003-1528-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2003] [Accepted: 10/27/2003] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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An advanced backcross population consisting of 80 BC(3)F(3) lines derived from rice vars. Vandana/ Moroberekan was analysed for blast resistance and genotyped with 50 candidate genes and 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Six candidate defence response genes [thaumatin, three nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat sequences from maize and two resistance gene analogue (RGA) markers] and one SSR marker (RM21) were significantly associated with partial blast resistance in rice ( P=0.01). These markers accounted for phenotypic variation ranging from 9.6% to 29.4% and contributed to 76% of the total variation of percentage diseased leaf area (DLA) observed under natural infection. Four candidate genes (oxalate oxidase, 14-3-3 protein and two RGA markers) and four SSR markers (RM21, RM168, RM215 and RM250) were significantly associated with resistance to a single pathogen isolate, PO6-6. Among these, two markers were for DLA, five for lesion number and one for lesion size. These markers accounted for 9.1-28.7% of the phenotypic variation. A moderate correlation ( r=0.48, P<0.01) was found between the level of partial resistance measured in the greenhouse and that measured under natural conditions. Analysis of BC(3)F(4) progeny using genotypes of BC(3)F(3) confirmed the phenotypic contribution of these markers. Cluster analysis of DNA profiles showed that the BC(3) population was genetically similar (>85%) to the recurrent parent Vandana. Although no obvious relationship between DNA profiles and resistant phenotypes was observed, three lines (VM19, VM46 and VM76) in a cluster with high similarity to Vandana (89-96%) expressed a high level of partial blast resistance in the field. Analysis of disease progress in the field confirmed the performance of selected lines based on greenhouse and nursery analyses. The advanced backcross progeny with resistance phenotypes tagged by markers will be useful for accumulating blast resistance in upland rice.
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- J-L Wu
- National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, 310006, Hangzhou, China
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