Rice(Oryza sativa L.)is a major food crop for more than half of the world’s population.Therefore,increasing rice production is of great importance.The successful development of hybrid rice in the 1970s was an importa...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1131003);the National Transgenic Research Projects(Grant Nos. 2009ZX08009-023 and 2011ZX08001-002);the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 10151064001000008);the President Science Foundation of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Grant No. 201101)
The elite rice cultivar Yuejingsimiao 2 (YJ2) is characterized by a high level of grain quality and yield, and resistance against Magnaporthe oryzae. YJ2 showed 100% resistance to four fungal populations collected f...
supported by the State Key Basic Research and Development Project of China (Grant No. 2006CB101902);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30710103902 and 30671354);the Ministry of Agriculture of China (Grant No. NYHYZX07-056)
Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzae,the causal agent of bacterial blight in rice,interacts with rice plants in a gene-for-gene manner.The specificity of the interaction is dictated by avirulence(avr) genes in the pathogen an...