Article
Molecular evolution of the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta in invasive weedy rice in the USA.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Lee Seonghee, Jia Yulin, Jia Melissa, Gealy David R, Olsen Kenneth M, Caicedo Ana L
Abstract excerpt
The Pi-ta gene in rice has been effectively used to control rice blast disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae worldwide. Despite a number of studies that reported the Pi-ta gene in domesticated rice and wild species, little is known about how the Pi-ta gene has evolved in US weedy rice, a major weed of rice. To investigate the genome organization of the Pi-ta gene in weedy rice and its relationship to gene flow...
Topics
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Variation
- Oryza
- Plant Diseases
- Plant Proteins
- Plant Weeds
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- United States
