What is it about?
Many types of bacteria and fungi attack plants, causing stress and significant crop losses worldwide. Therefore, finding genes that provide broad disease resistance and understanding how they work is crucial for plant breeding. We identified a new gene that helps rice fight against fungal and bacterial diseases and showed how it works.
Featured Image
Photo by Fauzan Saari on Unsplash
Why is it important?
Our findings show that the transcription factor OsWRKY65 increases rice immune responses to both bakanae and bacterial blight diseases via regulating various gene expressions.
Perspectives
Climate change is threatening global crop production and food security. Developing new plant breeding technologies can help counteract these effects. Therefore, understanding plant immunity and identifying key genes for disease resistance are crucial for creating new crop varieties. Our findings will aid in understanding complex plant immune systems and developing stress-resistant crops with enhanced immunity.
Seungmin Son
National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: OsWRKY65 enhances immunity against fungal and bacterial pathogens in rice, The Crop Journal, April 2024, Tsinghua University Press,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2024.01.007.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
