BACKGROUND The coupling of biotic and abiotic stresses leads to high yield losses in rainfed rice (Oryza sativa L.) growing areas. While several studies target these stresses independently, breeding strategies to combat multiple stresses seldom exist. This study reports an integrated strategy that combines QTL mapping and phenotypic selection to develop rice lines with high grain yield (GY) und...

The salicylic acid (SA) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in systemic acquired resistance in dicots. Several chemical inducers, which are also called “plant activators,” such as benzothiadiazole (BTH), protect plants from diseases by acting on the SA signaling pathway. Several studies by us and other groups have revealed that rice also has the SA signaling pathway that shares signaling com...

Rice blast, caused by Pyricularia oryzae, is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide. It essential to understand population structure and race distribution P. oryzae for prevention control blast. This study collected 1584 isolates across Jiangsu province from 2003 2017 determine diversity, common dominant structures, resistance profiles using eight parameters Chinese differential cu...

PROJECT NO. II.3 SUMMARY This project examines the feasibility of improving the blast-resistant capacity of reinforced concrete slabs by using innovative composite materials. In order to achieve this objective, five phases of testing were conceived. In the first phase of testing, four control reinforced concrete slabs were tested under real blast loads in order to establish a baseline for compa...

The rice blast resistance (R) gene Pi-ta mediates gene-for-gene resistance against strains of the fungus Magnaporthe grisea that express avirulent alleles of AVR-Pita. Using a map-based cloning strategy, we cloned Pi-ta, which is linked to the centromere of chromosome 12. Pi-ta encodes a predicted 928-amino acid cytoplasmic receptor with a centrally localized nucleotide binding site. A single-c...

Finger millet is the third important cereal crop in Sri Lanka, mostly cultivated rainfed uplands dry and intermediate zones. Blast disease (leaf, finger, neck blast) caused by Magnaporthe grisea economically devastating to rice finger worldwide. Host resistance most viable option for managing as it mainly grown low-input systems. One hundred thirty-nine accessions collected from Plant Genetic R...

Nonhost resistance protects plants against attack by the vast majority of potential pathogens, including phytopathogenic fungi. Despite its high biological importance, the molecular architecture of nonhost resistance has remained largely unexplored. Here, we describe the transcriptional responses of one particular genotype of barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare 'Ingrid') to three different p...

Antibiotic resistance Staphylococcus aureus strains cause several life threatening infections. New drug treatment options are needed, but are slow to develop because 50% of the S. aureus genome is hypothetical. The goal of this is to aid in the annotation of the S. aureus NCTC 8325 genome by identifying hypothetical proteins related to the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS). The MFS is a broad...

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most destructive diseases rice ( Oryza sativa L.) in rice-cultivated areas worldwide. Mowanggu (MWG) a traditional landrace variety Yunnan with broad-spectrum and durable blast resistance against fungus. However, underlying disease-resistance mechanisms remain unknown. An integrative transcriptomic, proteomic, phosphoproteomic analysis MWG ...