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Rice Genetics IV - IRRI books - International Rice Research Institute

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ALesion length (cm)252015105IR64D6-1851D6-242DM09 11 13 15Days after inoculationBLeaf ageIR64 D6-1851 D6-242 DML1 L2 L3 L4 L1 L2 L3 L4 L1 L2 L3 L4 L1 L2 L3 L4PBZ128SrRNAFig. 2. (A) Reduced susceptibility to bacterial blight in single and double mutants (DM) carryinglesion mimic mutations. (B) Expression of PBZ1 in leaf of different ages (L1 is youngest andL4 is oldest). The double mutant maintains a high level of expression in older leaves, whichcorresponds to enhanced resistance to bacterial blight.rial blight, and then evaluate these mutants with sheath blight under field conditions.So far, several lesion mimic mutants have been evaluated for reaction to sheath blightbut no enhanced resistance has been found. In addition, we have begun screening fortolerance of tungro viruses using viruliferous green leafhopper carrying both the spherical(RTSV) and bacilliform (RTBV) viruses. From a screening of about 2,000 lines,six putative mutants with different degrees of tolerance of RTSV were identified, andthese are being confirmed for both the phenotypes and genotypes.Abiotic stressesWe have initiated mutant screenings under drought, submergence, salinity, and zincdeficiency conditions. In preliminary screening experiments, quantitative variationwas observed in zinc deficiency tolerance but no variability for salinity stress (100mM NaCl) was found. From a screening of approximately 3,000 lines for submergencetolerance under field conditions, G. Gregorio and D. Adorada (personal communication)identified six putative mutants that give 75% recovery after 14-d submergencetreatment at the seedling stage. These mutants are being reevaluated toconfirm inheritance of submergence tolerance and yield performance.Deletion mutants for functional genomics: . . . 245

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