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The eight amino-acid differences within three leucine-rich repeats between Pi2 and Piz-t resistance proteins determine the resistance specificity to Magnaporthe grisea.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Nov 2006
Zhou Bo, Qu Shaohong, Liu Guifu, Dolan Maureen, Sakai Hajime, Lu Guodong, Bellizzi Maria, Wang Guo-Liang
Abstract excerpt
The rice blast resistance (R) genes Pi2 and Piz-t confer broad-spectrum resistance against different sets of Magnaporthe grisea isolates. We first identified the Pi2 gene using a map-based cloning strategy. The Pi2 gene is a member of a gene cluster comprising nine gene members (named Nbs1-Pi2 to Nbs9-Pi2) and encodes a protein with a nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain. Fine genetic...
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