Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30470990 and 30571063), the High-Tech Research and Development (863) Program of China (2005AA241010), the National "948" Project from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Fu-Rong Scholar Program. Publication of this paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30624808) and Science Publication Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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本校为第一且通讯机构
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农学院
摘要:
Rice diseases caused by fungi, bacteria and viruses are one of the major constraints for sustainable rice (Oryza sativa L.) production worldwide. The use of resistant cultivars is considered the most economical and effective method to control rice diseases. In the last decade, a dozen resistance genes against the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea and the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae have been cloned. Approximately half of them encode nuclear binding site (NBS) and leucine rich repeat (LRR)-containing proteins, the most common type of cloned plant resistance genes. Interest...