Transgenic strategies for improving rice disease resistance

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1750-1757

  Zhang, Huijuan ^a   Li, Guojun ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Song, Fengming ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Genetic engineering; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

EID: 66449124267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (76)

1. Ahn IP, Kim S, Kang S, Suh SC, Lee YH (2005). Rice defense mechanisms against Cochliobolus miyabeanus and Magnaporthe grisea are distinct. Phytopathol. 95: 1248-1255.
2. Bandyopadhyay S, Roy A, Das S (2001). Binding of garlic (Allium sativum) leaf lectin to the gut receptors of homopteran pests is correlated to its insecticidal activity. Plant Sci. 161: 1025-1033. (Pubitemid 32995310)
3. Bryan GT, Wu KS, Farrall L, Jia Y, Hershey HP, McAdams SA, Faulk KN, Donaldson GK, Tarchini R, Valent B (2000). A single amino acid difference distinguishes resistant and susceptible alleles of the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta. Plant Cell. 12: 2033-2046. (Pubitemid 32053393)
4. Callaway A, Giesman-Cookmeyer D, Gillock ET, Sit TL, Lommel SA (2001). The multifunctional capsid proteins of plant RNA viruses. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 39: 419-460.
5. Chen X, Shang J, Chen D, Lei C, Zou Y, Zhai W, Liu G, Xu J, Ling Z, Cao G, Ma B, Wang Y, Zhao X, Li S, Zhu L (2006). A B-lectin receptor kinase gene conferring rice blast resistance. Plant J. 46:794-804. (Pubitemid 43780626)
6. Chern MS, Fitzgerald HA, Yadav RC, Canlas PE, Dong X, Ronald PC (2001). Evidence for a disease-resistance pathway in rice similar to the NPR1-mediated signaling pathway in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 27: 101-113. (Pubitemid 32760413)
7. Chern M, Fitzgerald HA, Canlas PE, Navarre DA, Ronald PC (2005). Overexpression of a rice NPR1 homolog leads to constitutive activation of defense response and hypersensitivity to light. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 18: 511-520.
8. Coca M, Bortolotti C, Rufat M, Peñas G, Eritja R, Tharreau D, del Pozo AM, Messeguer J, San Segundo B (2004). Transgenic rice plants expressing the antifungal AFP protein from Aspergillus giganteus show enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Plant Mol. Biol. 54: 245-259. (Pubitemid 39001398)
9. Coca M, Penas G, Gomez J, Campo S, Bortolotti C, Messeguer J, Segundo BS (2006). Enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea conferred by expression of a cecropin A gene in transgenic rice. Planta. 223: 392-406.
10. Datta K, Velazhahan R, Oliva N, Ona I, Mew T, Khush GS, Muthukrishnan S, Datta SK (1999). Overexpression of the cloned rice thaumatin-like protein (PR-5) gene in transgenic rice plants enhances environmental friendly resistance to Rhizoctonia solani causing sheath blight disease. Theor. Appl. Genet. 98: 1138-1145.
11. Datta K, Koukolikova-Nicola Z, Baisakh N, Oliva N, Datta SK (2000). Agrobacterium-mediated engineering for sheath blight resistance of indica rice cultivars from different ecosystems. Theor. Appl. Genet. 100: 832-839.
12. Datta K, Tu J, Oliva N, Ona I, Velazhahan R, Mew TW, Muthukrishnan S, Datta SK (2001). Enhanced resistance to sheath blight by constitutive expression of infection-related rice chitinase in transgenic elite indica rice cultivars. Plant Sci. 160: 405-414. (Pubitemid 32157345)
13. Datta K, Baisakh N, Thet KM, Tu J, Datta SK (2002). Pyramiding transgenes for multiple resistance in rice against bacterial blight, yellow stem borer and sheath blight. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106: 1-8.
14. Ding X, Cao Y, Huang L, Zhao J, Xu C, Li X, Wang S (2008). Activation of the indole-3-acetic acid-amido synthetase GH3-8 suppresses expansin expression and promotes salicylate- and jasmonate-independent basal immunity in rice. Plant Cell, 20: 228-240. (Pubitemid 352844045)
15. Fargette D, Ghesquiere A, Albar L, Thresh JM (2006). Virus resistance in rice. In: Loebenstein G, Carr JP (eds), Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 431-446.
16. Fitzgerald HA, Chern MS, Navarre R, Ronald PC (2004). Overexpression of (At)NPR1 in rice leads to a BTH- and environment-induced lesion-mimic/cell death phenotype. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17: 140-151.
17. Glazebrook J (2005). Contrasting mechanisms of defense against biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 43: 205-227.
18. Gu K, Yang B, Tian D, Wu L, Wang D, Sreekala C, Yang F, Chu Z, Wang GL, White FF, Yin Z (2005). R gene expression induced by a type-III effector triggers disease resistance in rice. Nat. 435: 1122-1125. (Pubitemid 40910521)
19. Han S, Wu Z, Yang H, Wang R, Yie Y, Xie L, Tien P (2000). Ribozyme-mediated resistance to rice dwarf virus and the transgene silencing in the progeny of transgenic rice plants. Transgenic Res. 9: 195-203.
20. Hayakawa T, Zhu Y, Itoh K, Kimura Y, Izawa T, Shimamoto K, Toriyama S (1992). Geneticly engineered rice resistance to rice strip virus, an insect-transmitted virus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 89: 9865-9869.
21. Huet H, Mahendra S, Wang J, Sivamani E, Ong CA, Chen L, de Kochko A, Beachy RN, Fauquet C (1999). Near immunity to rice tungro spherical virus achieved in rice by a replicase-mediated resistance strategy. Phytopathol. 89: 1022-1027. (Pubitemid 29514852)
22. Itoh Y, Takahashi K, Takizawa H, Nikaidou N, Tanaka H, Nishihashi H, Watanabe T, Nishizawa Y (2003). Family 19 chitinase of Streptomyces griseus HUT6037 increases plant resistance to the fungal disease. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 67: 847-855.
23. Iyer AS, McCouch SR (2004). The rice bacterial blight resistance gene xa5 encodes a novel form of disease resistance. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17: 1348-1354.
24. Jha S, Tank HG, Prasad BD, Chattoo BB (2008). Expression of Dm-AMP1 in rice confers resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani. Transgenic Res. DOI: 10.1007/s11248-008-9196-9201
25. Jones JD, Dangl JL (2006). The plant immune system. Nat. 444: 323-329. (Pubitemid 44764102)
26. Kachroo A, He Z, Patkar R, Zhu Q, Zhong J, Li D, Ronald P, Lamb C, Chattoo BB (2003). Induction of H2O2 in transgenic rice leads to cell death and enhanced resistance to both bacterial and fungal pathogens. Transgenic Res. 12: 577-586. (Pubitemid 37292445)
27. Kalpana K, Maruthasalam S, Rajesh T, Poovannan K, Kumar KK, Kokiladevi E, Raja JAJ, Sudhakar D, Velazhahan R, Samiyappan R, Balasubramanian P (2006). Engineering sheath blight resistance in elite indica rice cultivars using genes encoding defense proteins. Plant Sci. 170: 203-215. (Pubitemid 41831179)
28. Kanzaki H, Nirasawa S, Saitoh H, Ito M, Nishihara M, Terauchi R, Nakamura I (2002). Overexpression of the wasabi defensin gene confers enhanced resistance to blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea) in transgenic rice. Theor. Appl. Genet. 105: 809-814.
29. Kim JK, Jang IC, Wu R, Zuo WN, Boston RS, Lee YH, Ahn IP, Nahm BH (2003). Co-expression of a modified maize ribosome-inactivating protein and a rice basic chitinase gene in transgenic rice plants confers enhanced resistance to sheath blight. Transgenic Res. 12: 475-484. (Pubitemid 37060401)
30. Kouassi NK, Chen L, Sire C, Bangratz-Reyser M, Beachy RN, Fauquet CM, Brugidou C (2006). Expression of rice yellow mottle virus coat protein enhances virus infection in transgenic plants. Arch. Virol. 151: 2111-2122.
31. Krishnamurthy K, Balconi C, Sherwood JE, Giroux MJ (2001). Wheat puroindolines enhance fungal disease resistance in transgenic rice. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14: 1255-1260.
32. Lentini Z, Lozano I, Tabares E, Fory L, Domínguez J, Cuervo M, Calvert L (2003). Expression and inheritance of hypersensitive resistance to rice hoja blanca virus mediated by the viral nucleocapsid protein gene in transgenic rice. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106: 1018-1026.
33. Lin F, Chen S, Que Z, Wang L, Liu X, Pan Q (2007). The blast resistance gene Pi37 encodes a nucleotide binding site leucine-rich repeat protein and is a member of a resistance gene cluster on rice chromosome 1. Genet. 177: 1871-1880.
34. Lin W, Anuratha CS, Datta K, Potrykus I, Muthukrishnan S, Datta SK (1995). Genetic engineering of rice for resistance to sheath blight. Biotechnol. 13: 686-691.
35. Liu M, Sun ZX, Zhu J, Xu T, Harman GE, Lorito M (2004). Enhancing rice resistance to fungal pathogens by transformation with cell wall degrading enzyme genes from Trichoderma atroviride. J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. 5: 133-136.
36. Liu X, Lin F, Wang L, Pan Q (2007). The in silico map-based cloning of Pi36, a rice coiled-coil nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat gene that confers race-specific resistance to the blast fungus. Genet. 176: 2541-2549.
37. Maruthasalam S, Kalpana K, Kumar KK, Loganathan M, Poovannan K, Raja JA, Kokiladevi E, Samiyappan R, Sudhakar D, Balasubramanian P (2007). Pyramiding transgenic resistance in elite indica rice cultivars against the sheath blight and bacterial blight. Plant Cell Rep. 26: 791-804. (Pubitemid 47164929)
38. Mei C, Qi M, Sheng G, Yang Y (2006). Inducible overexpression of a rice allene oxide synthase gene increases the endogenous jasmonic acid level, PR gene expression, and host resistance to fungal infection. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 1127-1137.
39. Moreno AB, Peñas G, Rufat M, Bravo JM, Estopa M, Messeguer J, San Segundo B (2005). Pathogen-induced production of the antifungal AFP protein from Aspergillus giganteus confers resistance to the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea in transgenic rice. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 18: 960-972.
40. Nagadhara D, Ramesh S, Pasalu IC, Rao YK, Sarma NP, Reddy VD, Rao KV (2004). Transgenic rice plants expressing the snowdrop lectin (gna) exhibit high-level resistance to the whitebacked planthopper (Sogetella furcifera). Theor. Appl. Genet. 109: 1399-1405.
41. Narayanan NN, Baisakh N, Oliva NP, VeraCruz CM, Gnanamanickam SS, Datta K, Datta SK (2004). Molecular breeding: marker-assisted selection combined with biolistic transformation for blast and bacterial blight resistance in indica rice (cv. CO39). Mol. Breed. 14: 61-71. (Pubitemid 39182699)
42. Nishizawa Y, Nishio Z, Nakazono K, Soma M, Nakajima E, Ugaki M, Hibi M (1999). Enhanced resistance to blast (Magnaporthe grisea) in transgenic japonica rice by constitutive expression of rice chitinase. Theor. Appl. Genet. 99: 383-390.
43. Nishizawa Y, Saruta M, Nakazono K, Nishio Z, Soma M, Yoshida T, Nakajima E, Hibi T (2003). Characterization of transgenic rice plants over-expressing the stress-inducible beta-glucanase gene Gns1. Plant Mol. Biol. 51: 143-152. (Pubitemid 36189141)
44. Pinto YM, Kok RA, Baulcombe DC (1999). Resistance to rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in cultivated African rice varieties containing RYMV transgenes. Nat. Biotechnol. 17: 702-707.
45. Prasad BD, Jha S, Chattoo BB (2008). Transgenic indica rice expressing Mirabilis jalapa antimicrobial protein (Mj-AMP2) shows enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Sci. 175: 364-371.
46. Punja ZK (2006). Recent developments toward achieving fungal disease resistance in transgenic plants. Can. J. Plant Pathol. 28S1: S298-S308. (Pubitemid 43901166)
47. Qiu D, Xiao J, Ding X, Xiong M, Cai M, Cao Y, Li X, Xu C, Wang S (2007). OsWRKY13 mediates rice disease resistance by regulating defense-related genes in salicylate- and jasmonate-dependent signaling. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 20: 492-499.
48. Qu S, Liu G, Zhou B, Bellizzi M, Zeng L, Dai L, Han B, Wang GL (2006). The broad-spectrum blast resistance gene Pi9 encodes a nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat protein and is a member of a multigene family in rice. Genet. 172: 1901-1914.
49. Quilis J, Penas G, Messeguer J, Brugidou C, San Segundo B (2008). The Arabidopsis AtNPR1 inversely modulates defense responses against fungal, bacterial, or viral pathogens while conferring hypersensitivity to abiotic stresses in transgenic rice. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 21: 1215-1231.
50. Saha P, Dasgupta I, Das S (2006). A novel approach for developing resistance in rice against phloem limited viruses by antagonizing the phloem feeding hemipteran vectors. Plant Mol. Biol. 62: 735-752.
51. Sanford JC, Johnston SA (1985). The concept of parasite-derived resistance - deriving resistance genes from the parasite's own genome. J. Theor. Biol. 113: 395-405.
52. Shah JM, Raghupathy V, Veluthambi K (2008). Enhanced sheath blight resistance in transgenic rice expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens. Biotechnol. Lett. DOI: 10.1007/s10529-008-9856-9865
53. Shao M, Wang J, Dean RA, Lin Y, Gao X, Hu S (2008). Expression of a harpin-encoding gene in rice confers durable nonspecific resistance to Magnaporthe grisea. Plant Biotechnol. J. 6: 73-81. (Pubitemid 350233588)
54. Sharma A, Sharma R, Imamura M, Yamakawa M, Machii H (2000). Transgenic expression of cecropin B, an antibacterial peptide from Bombyx mori, confers enhanced resistance to bacterial leaf blight in rice. FEBS Lett. 484: 7-11.
55. Shimizu T, Yoshii M, Wei T, Hirochika H, Omura T (2008). Silencing by RNAi of the gene for Pns12, a viroplasm matrix protein of rice dwarf virus, results in strong resistance of transgenic rice plants to the virus. Plant Biotechnol. J. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2008.00366.x.
56. Sivamani E, Huet H, Shen P, Shen P, Ong CA, de Kochko A, Fauquet C, Beachy RN (1999). Rice plant (Oryza sativa L.) containing rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) coat protein transgenes are resistant to virus infection. Mol. Breed. 5: 177-185.
57. Song FM, Goodman RM (2001). Molecular biology of disease resistance in rice. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 59: 1-11.
58. Song WY, Wang GL, Chen LL, Kim HS, Pi LY, Holsten T, Gardner J, Wang B, Zhai WX, Zhu LH, Ronald PC (1995). A receptor kinase-like protein encoded by the rice disease resistance gene, Xa21. Sci. 270: 1804-1806. (Pubitemid 26007223)
59. Sridevi G, Parameswari C, Sabapathi N, Raghupathy V, Veluthambi K (2008). Combined expression of chitinase and β-1, 3-glucanase genes in indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) enhances resistance against Rhizoctonia solani. Plant Sci. 175: 283-290.
60. Sun X, Cao Y, Yang Z, Xu C, Li X, Wang S, Zhang Q (2004). Xa26, a gene conferring resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in rice, encodes an LRR receptor kinase-like protein. Plant J. 37: 517-527.
61. Takakura Y, Che FS, Ishida Y, Tsutsumi F, Kurotani K, Usami S, Isogai A, Imaseki H (2008). Expression of a bacterial flagellin gene triggers plant immune responses and confers disease resistance in transgenic rice plants. Mol. Plant Pathol. 9: 525-529.
62. Tu J, Ona I, Zhang Q, Mew TW, Khush GS, Datta SK (1999). Transgenic rice variety 'IR72' with Xa21 is resistant to bacterial blight. Theor. Appl. Genet. 97: 31-36.
63. Tyagi H, Rajasubramaniam S, Rajam MV, Dasgupta I (2008). RNA-interference in rice against rice tungro bacilliform virus results in its decreased accumulation in inoculated rice plants. Transgenic Res. 17: 897-904.
64. Wang GL, Song WY, Ruan DL, Sideris S, Ronald PC (1996). The cloned gene, Xa21, confers resistance to multiple Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae isolates in transgenic plants. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 9: 850-855.
65. Wang H, Hao J, Chen X, Hao Z, Wang X, Lou Y, Peng Y, Guo Z (2008). Overexpression of rice WRKY89 enhances ultraviolet B tolerance and disease resistance in rice plants. Plant Mol. Biol. 65: 799-815.
66. Wang ZX, Yano M, Yamanouchi U, Iwamoto M, Monna L, Hayasaka H, Katayose Y, Sasaki T (1999). The Pib gene for rice blast resistance belongs to the nucleotide binding and leucine-rich repeat class of plant disease resistance genes. Plant J. 19: 55-64.
67. Wen N, Chu Z, Wang S (2003). Three types of defense-responsive genes are involved in resistance to bacterial blight and fungal blast diseases in rice. Mol. Genet. Genomics. 269: 331-339.
68. Xiang Y, Cao Y, Xu C, Li X, Wang S (2006). Xa3, conferring resistance for rice bacterial blight and encoding a receptor kinase-like protein, is the same as Xa26. Theor. Appl. Genet. 113: 1347-1355. (Pubitemid 44581695)
69. Yara A, Yaeno T, Hasegawa M, Seto H, Montillet JL, Kusumi K, Seo S, Iba K (2007). Disease resistance against Magnaporthe grisea is enhanced in transgenic rice with suppression of □-3 fatty acid desaturases. Plant Cell Physiol. 48: 1263-1274.
70. Yara A, Yaeno T, Hasegawa M, Seto H, Seo S, Kusumi K, Iba K (2008a). Resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in transgenic rice with suppressed expression of genes encoding allene oxide cyclase and phytodienoic acid reductase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 376: 460-465.
71. Yara A, Yaeno T, Montillet JL, Hasegawa M, Seo S, Kusumi K, Iba K (2008b). Enhancement of disease resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in rice by accumulation of hydroxy linoleic acid. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 370: 344-347.
72. Yoshimura S, Yamanouchi U, Katayose Y, Toki S, Wang ZX, Kono I, Kurata N, Yano M, Iwata N, Sasaki T (1998). Expression of Xa1, a bacterial blight-resistance gene in rice, is induced by bacterial inoculation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 95: 1663-1668.
73. Yuan Y, Zhong S, Li Q, Zhu Z, Lou Y, Wang L, Wang J, Wang M, Li Q, Yang D, He Z (2007). Functional analysis of rice NPR1-like genes reveals that OsNPR1/NH1 is the rice orthologue conferring disease resistance with enhanced herbivore susceptibility. Plant Biotechnol. J. 5: 313-324. (Pubitemid 46302408)
74. Zhang J, Peng Y, Guo Z (2008). Constitutive expression of pathogen-inducible OsWRKY31 enhances disease resistance and affects root growth and auxin response in transgenic rice plants. Cell Res. 18: 508-521.
75. Zhou B, Qu S, Liu G, Dolan M, Sakai H, Lu G, Bellizzi M, Wang GL (2006). The eight amino-acid differences within three leucine-rich repeats between Pi2 and Piz-t resistance proteins determine the resistance specificity to Magnaporthe grisea. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 1216-1228. (Pubitemid 44607333)
76. Zhu H, Xu X, Xiao G, Yuan L, Li B (2007). Enhancing disease resistances of Super Hybrid Rice with four antifungal genes. Sci. China C. Life Sci. 50: 31-39.