Rice Blast: Interaction with Rice and Control - Proceedings of the 3rd International Rice Blast Conference

For the researchers of rice blast disease and plant blast resistances, IRBC is an important chance to exchange information and discussion on rice blast, which has been a rather minor topic on international plant pathological meetings. Especially for those in Asia, where the blast is one the most important agricultural concerns, IRBC was a unique opportunity to discuss on rice blast with scientists in the West, in where it is achieving the positions of a model pathogen and a model system to study plant microbe interactions. However, I and probably many of Japanese blast researchers have felt an accumulated frustration that, in world plant pathological conferences, the information presented from Asia is only a small fraction although they have much more information that may be valuable for world plant pathologists and resistance researchers. I have noticed also some concept gaps between the researchers in East and West, particularly in the field resistance and the multiline system. There seems to be few who study field resistance and multilines in the West, while in Japan they are expected to become mainstream strategies to suppress the disease. Surely there is a great value in rd having 3 IRBC in Japan for cultivating wider communication between the scientists of the East and West.

List of contents

Overview on the chemical control of rice blast disease.- I Pathogen: Molecular Biology.- RNA silencing in the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea.- SAGE (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression) in Magnaporthe grisea -Profiling of cAMP-inducible genes involved in appressorium formation-.- Approach to understand metabolic networks involved in appressorium function of Colletotrichum lagenarium.- Proteomics of Magnaporthe grisea: liquid chromatography mass spectrometry for the identification of extracellular proteins.- Identification and characterization of secreted proteins from Magnaporthe grisea.- Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in Magnaporthe grisea: evidence for the presence of sexual cycle in nature.- Relationship between two avirulence genes, Avr-hattan 3 and Avr-piks.- II Host: Plant Resistance.- Genome evolution and function of resistance genes.- Broad-spectrum resistance genes Pi2(t) and Pi9(t) are clustered on chromosome 6.- Fine genetic mapping and physical delimitation of the rice blast resistance gene Pi5(t) to a 70-kb DNA segment of the rice genome.- Transposon-insertion lines of rice for analysis of gene function.- Quantitative trait loci (QTL) reactions to rice blast isolates from Japan and the Philippines.- Selection of criterional varieties for evaluation of blast partial resistance of rice in the Tohoku region of Japan.- Genetic dissection and mapping of genes conferring field resistance to rice blast in Japanese upland rice.- Studies on partial resistance to rice blast in the tropics.- Microarray analysis of gene expression in rice treated with probenazole, a resistance inducer, in special reference to blast disease.- Cytology of infection and host resistance in rice blast disease.- Probenazole (Oryzemate®) - a plant defense activator.- III Host:Resistance Breeding.- Genetic engineering for blast disease resistance in rice, using a plant defensin gene from Brassica species.- Transgenic rice expressing wasabi defensin gene exhibit its enhanced resistance to blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea).- Improve breeding for resistance to blast disease.- Durable control of rice blast disease with Multilines.- Rice blast control with Sasanishiki multilines in Miyagi prefecture.- Development and utilization of isogenic lines Koshihikari ToyamaBL.- Studies on the rice blast pathogen, resistance genes, and implication for breeding for durable blast resistance in Colombia.- Development of differential varieties for blast resistance in IRRI-Japan collaborative research project.- Identification of blast resistance genes in elite indica-type varieties of rice (Oryza sativa l.).- Resistance of some Chinese hybrid rice, conventional early indica and late japonica rice to Magnaporthe grisea.- IV Pathogen: Population Analysis.- Triticale and barley: new hosts of Magnaporthe grisea in São Paulo, Brazil - relationship with blast of rice and wheat.- Genetics of fertility and mating type in Magnaporthe grisea.- Mating type alleles, female fertility and genetic diversity of Magnaporthe grisea populations pathogenic to rice from five Asian countries.- V Plant Protection.- Efficacy of carpropamid against mutants of Magnaporthe grisea at codon 75 on scytalone dehydratase.- Computer simulation approaches for rice blast disease forecasting in Japan.- Simulation models of rice blast epidemics: -From a theoretical approach to a major component of IPM-.

Summary

For the researchers of rice blast disease and plant blast resistances, IRBC is an important chance to exchange information and discussion on rice blast, which has been a rather minor topic on international plant pathological meetings. Especially for those in Asia, where the blast is one the most important agricultural concerns, IRBC was a unique opportunity to discuss on rice blast with scientists in the West, in where it is achieving the positions of a model pathogen and a model system to study plant microbe interactions. However, I and probably many of Japanese blast researchers have felt an accumulated frustration that, in world plant pathological conferences, the information presented from Asia is only a small fraction although they have much more information that may be valuable for world plant pathologists and resistance researchers. I have noticed also some concept gaps between the researchers in East and West, particularly in the field resistance and the multiline system. There seems to be few who study field resistance and multilines in the West, while in Japan they are expected to become mainstream strategies to suppress the disease. Surely there is a great value in rd having 3 IRBC in Japan for cultivating wider communication between the scientists of the East and West.

Product details

• Assisted by: Shinj Kawasaki (Editor), Shinji Kawasaki (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9781402012280
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-1228-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 688 g
• Illustrations: X, 302 p. 103 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; C, Botany, biochemistry, Agriculture, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Biochemistry, general, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology, Plant biology, Botany and plant sciences