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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Transgenic Rice Line Carrying the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi9

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  • 1College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
    2Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
    3College of Plant Protection, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
*Corresponding author, E-mail: squ@mail.zaas.ac.cn

Received date: 2019-11-23

  Revised date: 2020-03-11

  Online published: 2020-05-10

Abstract

【Objective】The purpose of the study is to analyze the mechanism behind Pi9 gene-mediated rice blast resistance at the transcriptional level, and to lay a theoretical basis for breeding disease-resistant rice cultivars. 【Method】Rice cultivar Nipponbare (NPB) and NPB-transgenic line carrying the Pi9 rice blast resistance gene (NPB/Pi9) were inoculated with Magnaporthe oryzae. Leaf tissues were sampled at 0 h, 12 h, 24 h, and 36 h after inoculation, respectively. Gene-chip transcriptome analysis of 12503 rice genes was performed using the rice samples, and the microarray data were verified by qRT-PCR of a set of differentially expressed genes (DEGs). 【Result】7754 DEGs were identified by comparing the gene expression levels in the resistant NPB/Pi9 line at 12 h, 24 h and 36 h after inoculation, respectively, to that at 0 h after inoculation. Accordingly, 7385 DEGs were identified in the susceptible rice NPB at the same time points. At 36 h after inoculation, the DEG number of NPB/Pi9 was significantly higher than that of NPB. 4065 DEGs were identified by comparing the gene expression levels in NPB/Pi9 and NPB at the same time points; there were significantly more DEGs at 36 h after inoculation than at 0 h, 12 h or 24 h after inoculation. Therefore, NPB/Pi9 exhibited more intensive defense responses to Magnaporthe oryzae. Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG analyses were carried out on the DEGs between NPB/Pi9 and NPB at the same time points. The GO terms classifications related to extracellular regions, plant response to stimuli, transcriptional regulation, redox activity, ion binding activity, secondary metabolism and plant hormones were significantly enriched for the time points post inoculation. The KEGG pathways of phenylalanine metabolism, flavonoid biosynthesis and plant hormone signaling were enriched significantly at the time points post inoculation. Distinctive gene expression patterns were observed between NPB/Pi9 and NPB at the same time points for the genes of the effector-triggered immunity (ETI) related salicylic acid signaling pathway and chitinase, and the PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI) related extracellular regions, response to stimuli, and lignin biosynthesis. Moreover, distinctive gene expression patterns were observed between NPB/Pi9 and NPB at the same time points for the genes of WRKY transcription factors, MAPK kinases, jasmonate and ethylene signaling pathways that were utilized by both PTI and ETI. Based on all the results, the differential expression patterns between NPB/Pi9 and NPB are related to ETI and PTI, which are involved with each other and play important roles in the Pi9-mediated rice blast rice resistance. 【Conclusion】 Compared with NPB, the resistant genotype NPB/Pi9 showed more intensive defense responses against Magnaporthe oryzae. Transcription factors, kinases, NBS-LRR genes, chitinases, salicylic acid-, jasmonic acid-, and ethylene-signaling pathways, and plant secondary metabolism play important roles in Pi9 gene-mediated rice blast resistance.

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Zhaomeng XU, Lihua LI, Xiaoqing GAO, Zhengjie YUAN, Xin LI, Xudan TIAN, Lanlan WANG, Shaohong QU . Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Transgenic Rice Line Carrying the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi9[J]. Chinese Journal OF Rice Science, 2020 , 34(3) : 245 -255 . DOI: 10.16819/j.1001-7216.2020.9126

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