The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi

Pathogens have evolved different strategies to overcome the various barriers that they encounter during infection of their hosts. The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea causes one of the most damaging diseases of cultivated rice and has emerged as a paradigm system for investigation of foliar pathogenicity. This fungus undergoes a series of well-defined developmental steps during leaf infection, including the formation of elaborate penetration structures (appressoria). This process has been studied in great detail, and over thirty M. grisea genes that condition leaf infection have been identified. Here we show a new facet of the M. grisea life cycle: this fungus can undergo a different (and previously uncharacterized) set of programmed developmental events that are typical of root-infecting pathogens. We also show that root colonization can lead to systemic invasion and the development of classical disease symptoms on the aerial parts of the plant. Gene-for-gene type specific disease resistance that is effective against rice blast in leaves also operates in roots. These findings have significant implications for fungal development, epidemiology, plant breeding and disease control.     

Obtaining transgenic rice resistant to rice fungal blast disease by controlled cell death strategy

The strategy of the two-component system,composed of Barnase and Barstar which encode RNase and a specific inhibitor to the RNase respectively, is adopted to obtain transgenic rice resistant to rice fungal blast disease. In this study, two chimeric promoters, induced by rice blast fungus pathogen (Magnaporthe grisea), are fused with Barnase respectively to construct two plant expression vectors, pWBNBS and pPBNBS together with the Barstar driven by CaMV 35S promoter. The resistance of the transgenic rice lines to rice blast fungus disease and rice blight disease are evaluated. The results show that (1) the expression of Barnase is induced in rice leaves when inoculated with the spores of Magnaporthe grisea; (2) the induced expression level of Barnase surpasses the level of Barstar, which elicits a similar hypersensitive response (HR) in the leaves, and the transgenic plant shows high resistance to the rice fungal blast disease; and (3) transgenic rice plants also show obvious resistance to rice bacterial blight disease. Taken together, these results suggest that the transgenic rice plants harboring this two-component system acquire relatively broad spectrum resistance against pathogens, especially high resistance to rice fungal pathogen.     

两个稻瘟病菌假想蛋白的纯化和特性分析

稻瘟病菌(Magnaporthe Grisea)引起的水稻稻瘟病是世界水稻生产最具毁灭性的病害之一,也是研究植物与病原物相互作用分子机理的模式系统之一.真菌分泌蛋白由于其本身所具有的分泌特性极有可能成为被宿主植物识别的作用病菌分泌蛋白,该研究到目前为止还比较有限. 文章证明了稻瘟病菌分泌蛋白的存在并且检验了其中几个蛋白在其宿主植物水稻中的诱导因子作用. 通过同源基因的时空表达技术,表明分泌蛋白在稻瘟病菌中大量表达.其中两个在稻瘟病菌中的未知蛋白被测试出具有诱导因子作用.     

Enhancing rice resistance to fungal pathogens by transformation with cell wall degrading enzyme genes from Trichoderma atroviride

Three genes encoding for fungal cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs), ech42, nag70 and gluc78 from the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma atroviride were inserted into the binary vector pCAMBIA1305.2 singly and in all possible combinations and transformed to rice plants. More than 1800 independently regenerated plantlets in seven different populations (for each of the three genes and each of the four gene combinations) were obtained. The ech42 gene encoding for an endochitinase increased resistance to sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani, while the exochitinase-encoding gene, nag70, had lesser effect. The expression level of endochitinase but exochitinase was correlated with disease resistance. Nevertheless, exochitinase enhanced the effect of endochitinase on disease resistance when the two genes co-expressed in transgenics. Resistance to Magnaporthe grisea was found in all kinds of regenerated plants including that with single gluc78. A few lines expressing either ech42 or nag70 gene were immune to the disease. Transgenic plants are being tested to further evaluate disease resistance at field level. This is the first report of multiple of expression of genes encoding CWDEs from Trichoderma atroviride that result in resistance to blast and sheath blight in rice.     

用RT-PCR技术研究水稻中抗病基因同源序列DFR-1、OsMlo-1所在基因的功能

DFR-1、OsMlo-1分别是最近从水稻中克隆的玉米Hml和大麦中Mlo抗病基因同源序列，这两个序列与两个已报道的水稻抗稻瘟病数量性状位点（QTLs）有较好的对应关系，表明它们所在的基因可能参与抗病反应，为了进一步研究水稻DFR-1、OsMlo-1所在基因的功能，在DFR-1、OsMlo-1假定的外显子上设计引物，通过RT-PCR技术，研究在接种白叶枯病（Xanthomanas oryza pv oryzae）菌株PX099以及接种稻瘟病（Magnoparthe grisea）菌株V86013前后，水稻品种IRBB13和水稻品种明恢63中DFR-1、OsMlo-1所在基因的表达．结果表明：在接种白叶枯病菌株PX099的水稻品种IRBBl3中与DFR-1对应的基因是诱导增强的；在接种稻瘟病菌株V86013的水稻品种明恢63中与DFR-1、OsMlo-1对应的基因是诱导增强的，进一步表明DFR-1、OsMlo-1所在的基因可能参与水稻抗病反应。     

水稻主要有害真菌生物防治研究进展

水稻真菌病害是影响水稻高产的严重病害。生物防治是防治水稻病原真菌病害十分重要的途径。根据近几年国内外对水稻真菌病害生物防治的研究情况,主要综述了水稻主要真菌病害生物防治过程中生防菌的种类和应用,包括真菌、细菌和放线菌的种类和应用及生物防治中存在的问题。     

用抑制差减杂交技术分离烯丙异噻唑诱导水稻特异表达的基因

烯丙异噻唑(PBZ)处理水稻根能使其产生对稻瘟病的系统获得性抗性,因此在东南亚稻区被广泛用于防治稻瘟病,然而关于其作用的分子机理还知之甚少．运用抑制差减杂交技术,试图通过分离鉴定受PBZ诱导调控的关键基因,探索其作用的分子机理．以PBZ处理后的水稻叶片cDNA为目标群体(tester),以未处理水稻叶片cDNA为对照群体(driver),用经过对照cDNA差减的、烯丙异噻唑处理的cDNA群体构建了一个含260个重组子的差减文库．通过差示筛选鉴定出了26个。PBZ诱导水稻特异表达和增强表达的候选克隆．对26个cDNA克隆进行了双向测序和同源性比较,发现其中3个克隆：rJAB1,rTAB2和蛋白磷酸酯酶2Aδ调节亚基同型物基因,位于抗病相关信号转导途径上,它们与哺乳动物和人类免疫途径上的信号因子有明显相似之处,因此推断可能与诱导抗性有关．另外8个克隆与已知基因同源性为70％～99％．经Northern杂交分析,其中rJAB1(编码c-jun激活区结合蛋白1)受烯丙异噻唑和稻瘟菌诱导表达;膜糖蛋白同源基因及肌动蛋白(actin)α1受烯丙异噻唑诱导表达,部分克隆为低丰度转录本．     

A P-type ATPase required for rice blast disease and induction of host resistance

To cause diseases in plants, pathogenic microorganisms have evolved mechanisms to deliver proteins directly into plant cells, where they suppress plant defences and facilitate tissue invasion. How plant pathogenic fungi, which cause many of the world's most serious plant diseases, deliver proteins during plant infection is currently unknown. Here we report the characterization of a P-type ATPase-encoding gene, MgAPT2, in the economically important rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, which is required for exocytosis during plant infection. Targeted gene replacement showed that MgAPT2 is required for both foliar and root infection by the fungus, and for the rapid induction of host defence responses in an incompatible reaction. DeltaMgapt2 mutants are impaired in the secretion of a range of extracellular enzymes and accumulate abnormal Golgi-like cisternae. However, the loss of MgAPT2 does not significantly affect hyphal growth or sporulation, indicating that the establishment of rice blast disease involves the use of MgApt2-dependent exocytotic processes that operate during plant infection.     

Blast fungus-induction and developmental and tissue-specific expression of a rice P450<Emphasis Type="Italic">CYP72A</Emphasis> gene cluster

Cytochrome P450 gene superfamily is widely involved in diverse processes of plant development and environmental responses including defense response to pathogens.We previously isolated a rice cDNA fragment in a DD-PCR screening for blast fungus-induced genes. In the current study, we isolated a CYP72A gene cluster consisting of 7 P450 CYP72A genes (CYP72A17-23) with the conserved cDNA sequence through the public rice genome data. There are total 14 putative CYP72A members in the rice genome, with high diversity at N-terminal sequences while high homology at C-terminal sequences of those 14 putative proteins. We analyzed expression profiles of the cloned 7 CYP72A genes during pathogen infection and development. The results showed that expression of CYP72A18, 19, 22 and 23 was differentially regulated in the incompatible and compatible interactions between rice and blast fungus. Except CYP72A20, a pseudogene, other 6 CYP72A genes also exhibited temporal and spatial expression patterns, respectively.These findings provide fundamental data for rice P450 gene function analysis.     

Genome-wide analysis of nucleotide-binding site disease resistance genes in Medicago truncatula

The class of nucleotide-binding site （NBS）- Leucine-rich repeat （LRR） disease resistance genes play an important role in defending plants from a variety of pathogens and insect pests. Consequently, many NBS-LRR genes have been identified in various plant species. In this study, we identified 617 NBS-encoding genes in the Medicago truncatula genome （Mt3.5v5） and divided them into two groups, regular （490） and non-regular （127） NBS- LRR genes. The regular NBS-LRR genes were character- ized on the bases of structural diversity, chromosomal location, gene duplication, conserved protein motifs, and EST expression profiling. According to N-terminal motifs and LRR motifs, the 490 regular NBS-LRR genes were then classified into 10 types： CC-NBS （4）, CC-NBS-LRR （212）, TIR-NBS （20）, TIR-NBS-LRR （160）, TIR-NBS-TIR （1）, TIR-NBS-TIR-LRR （2）, NBS-TIR （7）, NBS-TIR-LRR （1）, NBS （10）, and NBS-LRR （73）. Analysis of the phys- ical location and duplications of the regular NBS-LRR genes revealed that the M. truncatula genome is similar to rice. Interestingly, we found that TIR-type genes are more frequently expressed than non-TIR-type genes in M. trun- catula, whereas the number of non-TIR-type regular NBS- LRR genes was greater than TIR-type genes, suggesting the gene expression was not associated with the total number of NBS-LRR genes. Moreover, we found that the phylogenetic tree supported our division of the regular NBS-LRR genes into two distinct clades （TIR-type and non-TIR-type）, but some of the non-TIR-type lineages contain TIR-type genes. These analyses provide a robust database of NBS-LRR genes in M. truncatula that will facilitate the isolation of new resistance genes and breeding strategies to engineer disease resistance in leguminous crop     

Metabolic priming by a secreted fungal effector

Maize smut caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis is a widespread disease characterized by the development of large plant tumours. U. maydis is a biotrophic pathogen that requires living plant tissue for its development and establishes an intimate interaction zone between fungal hyphae and the plant plasma membrane. U. maydis actively suppresses plant defence responses by secreted protein effectors. Its effector repertoire comprises at least 386 genes mostly encoding proteins of unknown function and expressed exclusively during the biotrophic stage. The U. maydis secretome also contains about 150 proteins with probable roles in fungal nutrition, fungal cell wall modification and host penetration as well as proteins unlikely to act in the fungal-host interface like a chorismate mutase. Chorismate mutases are key enzymes of the shikimate pathway and catalyse the conversion of chorismate to prephenate, the precursor for tyrosine and phenylalanine synthesis. Root-knot nematodes inject a secreted chorismate mutase into plant cells likely to affect development. Here we show that the chorismate mutase Cmu1 secreted by U. maydis is a virulence factor. The enzyme is taken up by plant cells, can spread to neighbouring cells and changes the metabolic status of these cells through metabolic priming. Secreted chorismate mutases are found in many plant-associated microbes and might serve as general tools for host manipulation.     

野生稻种质资源利用研究

文章综述了近年来野生稻遗传基础方面的研究及其利用的伟大成就．野生稻是水稻育种的重要基因库．与栽培稻亲缘关系较近的 Ａ Ａ 染色体组型野生稻,其优异基因的转移和利用已取得辉煌成就．非 Ａ Ａ 型野生稻与栽培稻远缘杂交不亲和是阻碍其优异基因利用的障碍．常规杂交和现代生物技术（胚拯救技术和细胞工程）相结合是克服种间屏障的有效方法     

2018年农业科学热点回眸

 盘点了2018年农业科学研发取得的一些重要成果。小麦、水稻、玉米及大豆、荞麦、马铃薯等主要粮食作物在基因组测序、分子育种、遗传机理解析、氮高效利用、起源演化、基因编辑等方面获得快速发展,发布了世界首个六倍体小麦基因组图谱,完成了3000份水稻基因组计划和中黄13的基因组测序,克隆了一系列产量、品质及抗病虫害基因,解析了一些重要的生长发育调控机制。油菜、棉花、茶叶、烟草等主要经济作物在基因组学、风味调控机理、光合效率等方面有所突破,中国油菜基础研究与应用已达到国际领先水平。此外,水稻、小麦、番茄、苹果等作物的病虫害防治,畜禽的繁殖、品种改良和疾病防治,蜜蜂的基因组和转录组解析,蚕病害防治和驯化历史,化肥和水稻品种对气候变化的影响、气候变化对作物产量的影响,茎叶类蔬菜和食用豆收获设备、油菜播种机等农机农艺领域均有突破性进展。     

Functional genomics in the rice blast fungus to unravel the fungal pathogenicity

A rapidly growing number of successful genome sequencing projects in plant pathogenic fungi greatly increase the demands for tools and methodologies to study fungal pathogenicity at genomic scale. Magnaporthe oryzae is an economically important plant pathogenic fungus whose genome is fully sequenced. Recently we have reported the development and application of functional genomics platform technologies in M. oryzae. This model approach would have many practical ramifications in design and implementation of upcoming functional genomics studies of filamentous fungi aimed at understanding fungal pathogenicity.     

The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1

The rice species Oryza sativa is considered to be a model plant because of its small genome size, extensive genetic map, relative ease of transformation and synteny with other cereal crops. Here we report the essentially complete sequence of chromosome 1, the longest chromosome in the rice genome. We summarize characteristics of the chromosome structure and the biological insight gained from the sequence. The analysis of 43.3 megabases (Mb) of non-overlapping sequence reveals 6,756 protein coding genes, of which 3,161 show homology to proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana, another model plant. About 30% (2,073) of the genes have been functionally categorized. Rice chromosome 1 is (G + C)-rich, especially in its coding regions, and is characterized by several gene families that are dispersed or arranged in tandem repeats. Comparison with a draft sequence indicates the importance of a high-quality finished sequence.     

21世纪水稻育种的新战略——综合利用无融合生殖、异源多倍体化和体细胞杂交技术

从生殖方式改变和作物进化趋势分析,论述了以无融合生殖为基础,结合利用优良基因、多倍体化和现代生物技术的21世纪水稻育种新战略．它包括3个部分：1利用无融合生殖建立快速育种新方法.利用水稻的孤雌生殖和无配子生殖能力,获得早世代稳定品系,建立快速育种方法,把无融合生殖特性与闭颖授粉、优质、抗性等特性结合探索高产优质多抗育种新途径,逐步实现利用无融合生殖固定杂种优势的目的．2利用无融合生殖和多倍体化探索育种新途径异源多倍体化是作物进化的总趋势．水稻是二倍体,基因组小通过无融合生殖、广亲和、异源多倍体化的利用,选育异源多倍体水稻,增加它的遗传变异范围,大幅度提高水稻的产量、质量和抗性．3．无融合生殖水稻和C4作物杂交创造高光效异源多倍体新作物．利用无融合生殖水稻与无融合生殖高光效的C4作物,如高粱、摩擦禾、大黍等杂交,特别是体细胞杂交和基因工程技术,创造具有无融合生殖特性高光效作物新品种     

Sequence and analysis of rice chromosome 4

Rice is the principal food for over half of the population of the world. With its genome size of 430 megabase pairs (Mb), the cultivated rice species Oryza sativa is a model plant for genome research. Here we report the sequence analysis of chromosome 4 of O. sativa, one of the first two rice chromosomes to be sequenced completely. The finished sequence spans 34.6 Mb and represents 97.3% of the chromosome. In addition, we report the longest known sequence for a plant centromere, a completely sequenced contig of 1.16 Mb corresponding to the centromeric region of chromosome 4. We predict 4,658 protein coding genes and 70 transfer RNA genes. A total of 1,681 predicted genes match available unique rice expressed sequence tags. Transposable elements have a pronounced bias towards the euchromatic regions, indicating a close correlation of their distributions to genes along the chromosome. Comparative genome analysis between cultivated rice subspecies shows that there is an overall syntenic relationship between the chromosomes and divergence at the level of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions and deletions. By contrast, there is little conservation in gene order between rice and Arabidopsis.     

转多个抗真菌蛋白基因水稻植株的获得及其抗稻瘟病菌的初步研究

用基因枪法将水稻碱性几丁质酶（ＲＣ２４）基因、苜蓿葡聚糖酶（βＧｌｕ）基因、大麦核糖体失活蛋白（ＢＲＩＰ）基因和潮霉素（ｈｐｔ）基因同时导入籼稻品种（七丝软占）中,获得了７个潮霉素抗性再生系,Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎｂｌｏｔ证明２～３个抗真菌蛋白基因已整合到水稻基因组中．初步抗性鉴定表明Ｒ０代转基因水稻植株对稻瘟病菌的抗性有所提高     

水稻基因组中U2snRNA基因连锁的分析

根据Ｕ２ｎＲＮＡ基因的保守性和结构特点设计引物,通过ＰＣＲ法扩增Ｕ２ｓｎＲＮＡ连锁基因间区的ＤＮＡ片段并进行顺序分析,证实在水稻中至少存在一组Ｕ２ｓｎＲＮＡ连锁基因。对水稻总ＤＮＡ的ＰＣＲ分析结果表明,水稻中可能还存在其他形式的连锁基因。ＰＣＲ方法可以有效地应用于结构保守基因的连锁分析中。