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Evaluation of Blast Resistance and Identification of Superior Haplotype of OsDR8 in Rice

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  • 1Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266000, China
    2Institute of Biotechnology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering for Agriculture, Fuzhou 350003, China
    3Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China
    4State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311401, China
    5CAAS Channel (Shenzhen) Biological Breeding Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518120, China

Received date: 2024-05-16

  Revised date: 2024-07-19

  Online published: 2025-05-21

Abstract

【Objective】Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a crucial staple crop globally. Its production is severely threatened by rice blast disease. Identifying resistance materials and analyzing resistance genes are essential for understanding the mechanisms behind rice blast resistance. This study aims to systematically generate and identify genetic materials of the rice blast resistance gene OsDR8, conduct haplotype and evolutionary analyses to select superior haplotypes, and investigate their subpopulation differentiation. These efforts will lay a theoretical basis for the application of OsDR8 in rice blast resistance breeding programs.【Method】We developed transgenic lines overexpressing the OsDR8 gene and its knockout mutants. We conducted rice blast resistance assays on the overexpression lines, homozygous knockout lines, and corresponding wild-type materials using Magnaporthe oryzae isolates RO1-1 and RB22. Meanwhile, haplotype and evolutionary analyses of the OsDR8 gene were conducted based on the rice super pan-genome variation map.【Result】Disease symptom observation and disease resistance evaluation indicated that knockout mutants had significantly larger lesion sizes and a higher proportion of diseased leaf area compared to the wild-type. In contrast, the overexpression lines showed reduced lesion sizes and a lower proportion of diseased leaf area. Combined with haplotype and evolutionary analyses, the results indicated that materials of the superior haplotype Hap2 show stronger disease resistance, with 95.52% of the indica rice subpopulation being the Hap2 haplotype.【Conclusion】The OsDR8 gene positively regulates resistance to rice blast, and that the superior haplotype Hap2 may be associated with stronger resistance in indica rice.

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ZHANG Bintao, LIU Congcong, GUO Mingliang, YANG Shaohua, WU Shiqiang, GUO Longbiao, ZHU Yiwang . Evaluation of Blast Resistance and Identification of Superior Haplotype of OsDR8 in Rice[J]. Chinese Journal OF Rice Science, 2025 , 39(3) : 343 -351 . DOI: 10.16819/j.1001-7216.2025.240509

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