TY - JOUR
T1 - Resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in transgenic rice with suppressed expression of genes encoding allene oxide cyclase and phytodienoic acid reductase
AU - Yara, Asanori
AU - Yaeno, Takashi
AU - Hasegawa, Morifumi
AU - Seto, Hideharu
AU - Seo, Shigemi
AU - Kusumi, Kensuke
AU - Iba, Koh
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Y. Hattori for technical assistance. This study was supported by CREST. JST, and the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (17370019) Grants.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/11/21
Y1 - 2008/11/21
N2 - Linolenic acid (18:3) and its derivative jasmonic acid (JA) are important molecules in disease resistance in many dicotyledonous plants. We have previously used 18:3- and JA-deficient rice (F78Ri) to investigate the roles of fatty acids and their derivatives in resistance to the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea [A. Yara, T. Yaeno, J.-L. Montillet, M. Hasegawa, S. Seo, K. Kusumi, K. Iba, Enhancement of disease resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in rice by accumulation of hydroxy linoleic acid, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 370 (2008) 344-347; A. Yara, T. Yaeno, M. Hasegawa, H. Seto, J.-L. Montillet, K. Kusumi, S. Seo, K. Iba, Disease resistance against Magnaporthe grisea is enhanced in transgenic rice with suppression of ω-3 fatty acid desaturases, Plant Cell Physiol. 48 (2007) 1263-1274]. However, because F78Ri plants are suppressed in the first step of the JA biosynthetic pathway, we could not confirm the specific contribution of JA to disease resistance. In this paper, we generated two JA-deficient rice lines (AOCRi and OPRRi) with suppressed expression of the genes encoding allene oxide cyclase (AOC) and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductase (OPR), which catalyze late steps in the JA biosynthetic pathway. The levels of disease resistance in the AOCRi and OPRRi lines were equal to that in wild-type plants. Our data suggest that resistance to M. grisea is not dependent on JA synthesis.
AB - Linolenic acid (18:3) and its derivative jasmonic acid (JA) are important molecules in disease resistance in many dicotyledonous plants. We have previously used 18:3- and JA-deficient rice (F78Ri) to investigate the roles of fatty acids and their derivatives in resistance to the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea [A. Yara, T. Yaeno, J.-L. Montillet, M. Hasegawa, S. Seo, K. Kusumi, K. Iba, Enhancement of disease resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in rice by accumulation of hydroxy linoleic acid, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 370 (2008) 344-347; A. Yara, T. Yaeno, M. Hasegawa, H. Seto, J.-L. Montillet, K. Kusumi, S. Seo, K. Iba, Disease resistance against Magnaporthe grisea is enhanced in transgenic rice with suppression of ω-3 fatty acid desaturases, Plant Cell Physiol. 48 (2007) 1263-1274]. However, because F78Ri plants are suppressed in the first step of the JA biosynthetic pathway, we could not confirm the specific contribution of JA to disease resistance. In this paper, we generated two JA-deficient rice lines (AOCRi and OPRRi) with suppressed expression of the genes encoding allene oxide cyclase (AOC) and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductase (OPR), which catalyze late steps in the JA biosynthetic pathway. The levels of disease resistance in the AOCRi and OPRRi lines were equal to that in wild-type plants. Our data suggest that resistance to M. grisea is not dependent on JA synthesis.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.08.157
DO - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.08.157
M3 - Article
C2 - 18786507
AN - SCOPUS:53149122046
SN - 0006-291X
VL - 376
SP - 460
EP - 465
JO - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
JF - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
IS - 3
ER -