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Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat

BACKGROUND: Nitrogen often increases disease susceptibility, a phenomenon that can be observed under controlled conditions and called NIS, for Nitrogen-Induced Susceptibility. NIS has long been reported in the case of rice blast disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. We used an experimenta...

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Autores principales: Ballini, Elsa, Nguyen, ThuyThu Thi, Morel, Jean-Benoit
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Publicado: Springer New York 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24280346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-8433-6-32
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author Ballini, Elsa
Nguyen, ThuyThu Thi
Morel, Jean-Benoit
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description BACKGROUND: Nitrogen often increases disease susceptibility, a phenomenon that can be observed under controlled conditions and called NIS, for Nitrogen-Induced Susceptibility. NIS has long been reported in the case of rice blast disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. We used an experimental system that does not strongly affect plant development to address the question of NIS polymorphism across rice diversity and further explored this phenomenon in wheat. We tested the two major types of resistance, namely quantitative/partial resistance and resistance driven by known resistance genes. Indeed there are conflicting reports on the effects of NIS on the first one and none on the last one. Finally, the genetics of NIS is not well documented and only few loci have been identified that may control this phenomenon. RESULTS: Our data indicate that NIS is a general phenomenon affecting resistance to blast fungus in these two cereals. We show that the capacity of rice to display NIS is highly polymorphic and does not correlate with difference related to indica/japonica sub-groups. We also tested the robustness of three different major resistance genes under high nitrogen. Nitrogen partially breaks down resistance triggered by the Pi1 gene. Cytological examination indicates that penetration rate is not affected by high nitrogen whereas growth of the fungus is increased inside the plant. Using the CSSL mapping population between Nipponbare and Kasalath, we identified a Kasalath locus on chromosome 1, called NIS1, which dominantly increases susceptibility under high nitrogen. We discuss the possible relationships between Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE), disease resistance regulation and NIS. CONCLUSIONS: This work provides evidences that robust forms of partial resistance exist across diversity and can be easily identified with our protocol. This work also suggests that under certain environmental circumstances, complete resistance may breakdown, irrelevantly of the capacity of the fungus to mutate. These aspects should be considered while breeding for robust forms of resistance to blast disease. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1939-8433-6-32) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-48836892016-06-21 Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat Ballini, Elsa Nguyen, ThuyThu Thi Morel, Jean-Benoit Rice (N Y) Research BACKGROUND: Nitrogen often increases disease susceptibility, a phenomenon that can be observed under controlled conditions and called NIS, for Nitrogen-Induced Susceptibility. NIS has long been reported in the case of rice blast disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. We used an experimental system that does not strongly affect plant development to address the question of NIS polymorphism across rice diversity and further explored this phenomenon in wheat. We tested the two major types of resistance, namely quantitative/partial resistance and resistance driven by known resistance genes. Indeed there are conflicting reports on the effects of NIS on the first one and none on the last one. Finally, the genetics of NIS is not well documented and only few loci have been identified that may control this phenomenon. RESULTS: Our data indicate that NIS is a general phenomenon affecting resistance to blast fungus in these two cereals. We show that the capacity of rice to display NIS is highly polymorphic and does not correlate with difference related to indica/japonica sub-groups. We also tested the robustness of three different major resistance genes under high nitrogen. Nitrogen partially breaks down resistance triggered by the Pi1 gene. Cytological examination indicates that penetration rate is not affected by high nitrogen whereas growth of the fungus is increased inside the plant. Using the CSSL mapping population between Nipponbare and Kasalath, we identified a Kasalath locus on chromosome 1, called NIS1, which dominantly increases susceptibility under high nitrogen. We discuss the possible relationships between Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE), disease resistance regulation and NIS. CONCLUSIONS: This work provides evidences that robust forms of partial resistance exist across diversity and can be easily identified with our protocol. This work also suggests that under certain environmental circumstances, complete resistance may breakdown, irrelevantly of the capacity of the fungus to mutate. These aspects should be considered while breeding for robust forms of resistance to blast disease. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1939-8433-6-32) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer New York 2013-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4883689/ /pubmed/24280346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-8433-6-32 Text en © Ballini et al.; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
title_full Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
title_fullStr Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
title_full_unstemmed Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
title_short Diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
title_sort diversity and genetics of nitrogen-induced susceptibility to the blast fungus in rice and wheat
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24280346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-8433-6-32
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