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Rong Gong1,2,3,4, Huasheng Cao1,2,3,4, Yangyang Pan1,2,3,4
1Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Abstract:
Rice phosphatidylcholine transfer protein (PCTP), which contains a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain, responds to bacterial blight disease. Overexpression of OsPCTP quantitatively enhances resistance to pathogen in rice, whereas depletion of it has the opposite effect. Further analysis showed that OsPCTP physically interacts with OsAPX8, a ROS scavenging enzyme, and influences ascorbate peroxidase enzymatic activity in vivo. In addition, the expression of pathogenesis-related genes PR1a, PR1b and PR10 were significantly induced in OsPCTP-OE plants compared with that in wild-type plants ZH11. Taken together, these results suggested that OsPCTP mediates bacterial blight resistance in rice through regulating the ROS defense pathway.
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