Transgenic rice homozygous lines expressing GNA showed enhanced resistance to rice brown planthopper

Mature seed-derived calli from two elite Chinese japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars Eyi 105 and Ewan 5 were co-transformed with two plasmids, pWRG1515 and pRSSGNA1, containing the selectable marker hygromycin phosphotransferase gene (hpt), the reporter β-glucuronidase gene (gusA) and the snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) lectin gene (gna) via particle bombardment. 61 independent transgenic rice plants were regenerated from 329 bombarded calli. 79% transgenic plants contained all the three genes, revealed by PCR/Southern blot analysis. Western blot analysis revealed that 36 out of 48 gna-containing transgenic plants expressed GNA (75%) at various levels with the highest expression being approximately 0.5% of total soluble protein. Genetic analysis confirmed Mendelian segregation of transgenes in progeny. From the R2 generations whose R1 parent plants showing 3:1 Mendelian segregation patterns, we identified five independent homozygous lines containing and expressing all the three transgenes. Insect bioassay and feeding tests showed that these homozygous lines had significant inhibition to rice brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens, BPH) by decreasing BPH survival and overall fecundity, retarding BPH development and declining BPH feeding. These BPH-resistant lines have been incorporated into rice insect resistance breeding program. This is the first report that homozygous transgenic rice lines expressing GNA, developed by genetic transformation and through genetic analysis-based selection, conferred enhanced resistance to BPH, one of the most damaging insect pests in rice.     

Production of bacterial blight resistant lines from somatic hybridization between Oryza sativa L. and Oryza meyeriana L

Novel bacterial blight (BB) resistance gene(s) for rice was (were) introduced into a cultivated japonica rice variety Oryza sativa (cv. 8411), via somatic hybridization using the wild rice Oryza meyeriana as the donor of the resistance gene(s). Twenty-nine progenies of somatically hybridized plants were obtained. Seven somatically hybridized plants and their parents were used for AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) analysis using 8 primer pairs. Results confirmed that these plants were somatic hybrids containing the characteristic bands of both parents. The morphology of the regenerated rice showed characters of both O.sativa and O.meyeriana. Two somatic hybrids showed highest BB resistance and the other 8 plants showed moderate resistance. The new germplasms with highest resistance have been used in the rice breeding program for the improvement of bacterial blight resistance.     

广西野生稻抗病虫性鉴定研究的主要进展

综述了广西野生稻资源稻瘟病、稻白叶枯病、褐稻虱、白背飞虱、稻瘿蚊抗性鉴定的主要结果，介绍了一批优良的抗性资源，并展望了今后的工作。     

Mapping of two new brown planthopper resistance genes from wild rice

A brown planthopper (BPH) resistance line, B5, derived its resistance genes from the wild riceOryza officinalis Wall exwatt, was hybridized with Taichung Native 1, a cultivar highly susceptible to BPH. A mapping population composed of randomly selected 167 F₂ individuals was used for determining the BPH resistance genes by the restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (RFLP). Bulked segregant analysis was conducted to identify RFLP makers linked to the BPH resistance genes in B5. The results indicated that the markers linked to BPH resistance are located at two genomic regions on the long arm of chromosome 3 and the short arm of chromosome 4, respectively. The existence of the two loci was further assessed by the quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. We located the two loci at a 3.2 cM interval between G1318 and R1925 on chromosome 3 and a 1.2 cM interval between C820 and S11182 on chromosome 4. Comparison with the BPH genes that have been reported indicated that the BPH resistance genes in B5 are novel. These two genes may be useful BPH resistance resource for rice breeding. Furthermore, the mapping of the two genes is useful for cloning the BPH resistance genes.     

In situ localization of proteinase inhibitor mRNA in rice plant challenged by brown planthopper

Proteinase inhibitor (PI) mRNA was localized by in situ hybridization in tissue sections of root, stem and leaf of the resistant rice (B5) plant fed by brown planthopper nymphs. In the rice material without BPH feeding, PI gene was expressed in the root, stem and leaf, while the abundance of PI mRNA was low. In the rice material fed by BPH,PI gene was expressed substantially in the parenchyma of rice stem and leaf, but weakly in the root. The results indicated that the PI gene was up-regulated in the rice plant challenged by brown planthopper. For the first time, we reported the expression changes of proteinase inhibitor gene in plant which was infested by a piercing/sucking insect.     

生物鉴定和喂养试验证明GNA赋予转基因水稻纯系对褐飞虱的抗性

参照Rao等（1998）的褐飞虱生物鉴定和喂养方法,用水稻褐飞虱生物Ⅰ型的－龄若虫食喂,用基因枪法获得2个转基因水稻纯系。这2个纯系均含有并表达潮霉素抗性基因（hpt),gusA报告基因和雪花莲凝集素基因（gna)。褐飞虱生物鉴定和喂养试验表明,水稻纯系对褐飞虱具有显著的抑制作用。具体表现为降低褐飞虱成活率和繁殖力、延缓褐虱发育以及减少褐飞虱进食是。通过褐飞虱生物鉴定和喂养试验证明,表达GNA的转基因水稻纯系对严重危害水稻生产的褐飞虱具有抗性作用。     

Fine mapping of <Emphasis Type="Italic">qHUS6.1</Emphasis>, a quantitative trait locus for silicon content in rice (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Oryza sativa</Emphasis> L.)

Silicon is essential for optimal growth of rice (Oryza sativa L.). This study was conducted to fine map qHUS6.1, a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for rice hull silicon content previously located in the interval RM510–RM19417 on the short arm of chromosome 6, and to analyze the effect of this QTL on the silicon content in different organs of rice. Selfed progenies of a residual heterozygous line of rice were detected using 13 microsatellite markers in the vicinity of qHUS6.1. Three plants with overlapping heterozygous segments were selected. Three sets of near isogenic lines (NILs) were developed from the selfed progenies of the 3 plants. They were grown in a paddy field and the silicon contents of the hull, flag leaf, and stem were measured at maturity. Based on analyses of the phenotypic distribution and variance among different genotypic groups in the same NIL set, a significant genotypic effect was shown in the NIL set that was heterogenous in the interval RM19410–RM5815, whereas a significant effect was not found in the remaining 2 NIL sets that were heterogenous in either of the intervals RM4923–RM19410 or RM19417–RM204. On comparison among the physical positions of the 3 heterogenous segments, qHUS6.1 was delimited to a 64.2-kb region flanked by RM19410 and RM19417 that contains nine annotated genes according to the genome sequence of Nipponbare. This QTL showed strong effects on all of the three traits tested, and the enhancing alleles were always derived from the paternal line Milyang 46. The present study will facilitate the cloning of qHUS6.1 and the exploration of new genetic resources for QTL fine mapping.     

基于ISSR标记的稻属AA基因组遗传多样性分析

为了确定稻属AA基因组物种间的遗传差异和系统进化关系,62份来自广泛地理分布的水稻品系被用于ISSR标记分析。这些品系包含有6个野生稻种(O.nivara,O.rufipogon、O.barthi,O.longistaminata,O.glumaepatula,和O.meridionalis)和2个栽培稻种(O.sativa和O.glaberrima)。21条能产生良好重复性条带模式的ISSR引物被筛选出,并在62个水稻品系中揭示出非常好的多态性。全部样品的基因多样性为0.527,同时显示出ISSR标记在稻属物种遗传多样性研究中具有强大的作用。根据ISSR条带模式,利用Jaccard配对相似系数构建的一致性树状图,显示出具有良好自展支持率的稻属AA基因组遗传多样性关系。结果表明,来自不同大陆的稻属物种具有较近的亲缘关系,尤其是亚洲野生稻物种与Vaughan1989年建立的稻属分类系统具有良好的一致性。研究结果将对稻属AA基因组野生稻在水稻育种实践中的有效利用具有非常重要的意义。     

长雄野生稻紫色柱头性状的遗传和基因定位研究

 由花青素合成代谢形成的紫色柱头性状在包括长雄野生稻在内的AA基因组野生稻中较为普遍.为研究长雄野生稻中的紫色柱头性状,以具无色柱头的亚洲栽培稻品种RD23为轮回亲本与紫色柱头的长雄野生稻进行回交,经胚挽救和多代连续选择,获得3个柱头颜色有分离的BC₆F₁定位群体.这些群体中,柱头颜色均适合1(紫色):1(无色)的分离比例,表明紫色柱头性状受一对显性核基因控制.通过微卫星标记分析,将控制紫色柱头的基因定位在水稻第6染色体上,距标记RM₂₅₃,RM111和RM6917分别为2.5,0cM和4.4cM.对比已发表的紫色柱头基因座位,它可能与来自亚洲栽培稻的Ps-4(t)基因等位,所以暂命名为Ps-4(t).     

籼-粳稻特异插入／缺失分子标记揭示的稻属植物遗传分化

籼-粳分化在亚洲栽培稻(Oryza sativa L.)的驯化过程中非常重要,但其分化机制仍不清楚.有的学者认为水稻籼-粳分化是亚洲栽培稻在驯化过程中适应不同生境的结果,也有人认为籼-粳分化在水稻的野生祖先种中就已经存在.为了研究普通野生稻的籼-粳分化,并解析稻属(Oryza)植物的籼-粳遗传变异,利用34对籼-粳特异插入/缺失分子标记(InDel)引物,研究了50份典型籼稻(O.sativa L.subsp.Indica Kato)和粳稻(O.sativa L.subsp.japonica Kato)样本以及来源于35个国家的348份稻属其他种材料.结果表明,亚洲栽培稻存在明显的籼-粳分化,普通野生稻复合体(O.rufipogon complex)中存在"偏籼"和"偏粳"类型,而稻属的其他种均未出现籼-粳分化,普通野生稻复合体中"偏籼"和"偏粳"类型的地理分布格局与籼稻和粳稻的地理分布格局相吻合.考虑到大部分普通野生稻复合体的样本取自邻近有栽培稻种植的普通野生稻群体,推测得出部分普通野生稻样本中表现出的"偏籼"和"偏粳"类型可能是栽培稻的籼稻品种和粳稻品种在普通野生稻的长期协同进化过程中基因交流的结果.     

Cloning and characterization of rice RH3 gene induced by brown planthopper

Histones are basic low molecular weight proteins found in all eukaryotic genomes. The histones include five classes of basic proteins (H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) that interact with each other and nuclear DNA to form the nucleosome. The H3 and H4 histone proteins are highly conserved and form the central tetrameric block of the core-nucleosome. Histone H3 has several post-transcrip- tional modifications such as methylation, acetylation, phosphonation, and ADP-ribosylation and it plays impor…     

内源抗环血酸对水稻叶片抗氧化胁迫的影响

本文以野生型（WT）水稻（Oryza sativa）品种中花11(ZH-11)和利用转基因技术已经构建获得的抗坏血酸合成关键酶GLDH基因的上调（超表达）株系GO-2及下调（干涉）株系GI-2的离体叶片为实验材料，用甲基紫精（MV）高光诱导的光氧化胁迫处理，研究内源抗环血酸对水稻叶片抗光氧化能力的影响。MV高光处理后，GO-2水稻叶片的超氧阴离子和过氧化氢含量明显低于ZH-11和GI-2。水稻叶片的膜脂过氧化加剧，可溶性蛋白发生了降解，其中GI-2受到的影响最大。叶绿素荧光相关参数的变化体现了超表达的优势。结果显示抗坏血酸含量高的超表达株系GO-2具有更强的抗氧化胁迫能力，而干涉型株系GI-2的抗氧化胁迫能力最差。本实验说明了内源抗坏血酸能明显增强水稻抗氧化能力。     

Genetic analysis and gene mapping of leafy head （lhd）, a mutant blocking the differen-tiation of rachis branches in rice （Oryza sativa L.）

Flowers, fruits and seeds are products of plant re- productive development and provide the important sources of foods for humans. Therefore, the moleculargenetic mechanisms of floral development have been ahotspot of research of plant developmental biology[1]. Rice is one of the most important staple food crops. Theoutcome of its reproductive development would determine the yield and quality of grains. Rice is also a model plantof cereals. Hence, the study of rice reproductivedevelopment, esp…     

花粉愈伤组织群体偏态分离的SSR标记鉴定

利用水稻花粉育性基因S-b的SSR分子标记RMl3，鉴定籼粳稻杂种Fl的花粉愈伤组织的基因型，以确定每块愈伤组织在S-b座位的遗传来源，结果表明该座位的等位基因S^i或S^j在愈伤组织群体中分离比不符合1：1的规律，出现偏态分离现象．选择不同培养基及增加预冷处理不会改变偏态分离的方向，但预冷处理会增大偏分离的趋势．为进一步解释DH群体构建中的某些基因的偏态分离现象提供了依据，同时讨论了将SSR标记引入组织培养体系的可行性．     

转基因水稻与野生稻（Oryza nivara Sharma et Shastry）杂交后代种子萌发率

种子休眠性是野生植物重要的适应性状,通过种子萌发实验可以分析种子休眠性强弱.通过人工杂交获得转抗虫基因栽培稻与一年生普通野生稻三种组合的杂种,对杂种的F3代和F4代种子采用直接萌发、打破休眠后萌发、埋土15 d和30 d 4种不同处理来检测种子活力和萌发率.结果显示转基因杂种后代种子表现出较强的休眠性,转基因对种子活力和休眠性没有明显的影响,种子休眠性有随种子世代的增加而逐渐减弱的趋势,提示水稻转基因逃逸后有在野生稻群体中宿存和扩散的可能性,但这种可能性可能会随世代增加而下降.这为进一步研究水稻转基因逃逸风险提供了参考.     

稻属基因组间相关性的AFLP分析

应用AFLP（amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism)－银染法对2种栽培稻和21种野生稻的基因组多态性进行了检测,共计使用了9对选择性引物组合,扩增出602个遗传位点,通过Jacard的方法将电泳带矩阵转化为遗传相似性系数矩阵,并进行了聚类分析和主成分分析,结果表明,稻属植物按其亲缘关系的远近被分为三个大的类群：O.sativa群,O.officinalis群和其它远缘混合群,本文还对两种栽培稻的起源途径以及稻属物种的不同类型基因组间的缘关系进行了初步的探讨,为深入研究稻属物种间的进化关系提供参考。     

Physical location of riceGm-6, Pi-5(t) genes inO. officinalis with BAC-FISH

A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) procedure was adopted to physically map two rice BAC clones 24E21 and 4F22 linked to Gm-6 and Pi-5(t) in O. offi-cinalis. FISH results showed that the two BAC clones were located at 4L. The percentage distance from the centromere to the hybridization sites was 72 + 2.62 for 24E21 and 54+ 5.43 for 4F22, the detection rates were 52.70% and 61.2%. The results obtained from the BAC and plasmid clones, RG214 and RZ565 of cultivated rice and O. officinalis were the same. This suggested that the markers, RG214 and RZ565 of cultivated rice and O. officinalis were in the same BAC clones. The homologous sequences of Gm-6 and Pi-5(t) in O. officinalis were positions that signals existed on the 4L. Many signals were observed when no Cot-1 DNA blocked. This also showed that repetitive sequences were some ho-molgous between cultivated rice and O. officinalis. The identification of chromosome 4 of O. officinalis is based on Jena et al. (1994). In our study, we discussed the possibility of physical map in O. officinalis with rice BAC clones.     

Transfer of bacterial blight resistance from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Oryza meyeriana</Emphasis> to <Emphasis Type="Italic">O. sativa</Emphasis> L. by asymmetric somatic hybridization

Asymmetric somatic hybrid plants were produced between cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) and wild species [O. meyeriana (Zoll. etMor, exSteud.)] with high resistance to rice bacterial blight. X-ray-irradiated protoplasts of the wild species were used as donor and chemically fused with iodoacetamide-inactivated protoplasts of rice cv. 02428 to produce hybrids. Seventy-two plants were regenerated from 623 calli based on metabolic complementation. The morphological characters of the plants closely resembled that of the rice. Simple sequence repeats were employed to identify their hybridity. Cytological analysis of root-tips revealed that their chromosome number varied in the range of 27--38. The somatic hybrids were inoculated with strains of Xanthamonas oryzae pv. oryzae at adult growth stage and demonstrated the resistance to bacterial blight introgression from the O. meyeriana.     

重庆市秀山县田间褐飞虱生物型研究

褐飞虱生物型的研究对于抗虫品种的布局、选育和褐飞虱的综合治理具有重要的指导意义.该研究用标准苗期鉴定法对重庆市秀山县田间褐飞虱种群进行生物型测定,种植具有不同抗性基因的5个水稻鉴别品种TN1,Mudgo,ASD7,Rathu-heerati和Babawee,在苗期接入采自秀山县清溪镇和平凯镇杂交稻田的褐飞虱2～3龄若虫,按国际水稻研究所的鉴别标准测定褐飞虱的生物型.结果表明除了敏感品种TN1稻株100%死亡外,具有Bph1抗性基因的Mudgo品种及具有bph2抗性基因的ASD7品种稻株也全部死亡,而分别具有抗性基因Bph3和bph4的Rathu-heerati和Babawee品种稻株未出现死亡现象,由此初步推断重庆市秀山县褐飞虱属于生物型1、生物型2和生物型3的混合种群.     

Effects of herbivore-induced rice volatiles on the host selection behavior of brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens

It has been suggested that herbivore would react to volatiles produced by herbivore infested plant due to potential change, either positive or negative, in the acceptability of the host plant. This hypothesis was tested for the brown planthopper (BPH) in the laboratory. Sixteen components of the headspace volatiles from rice seedlings with different treatments were collected with SPME and Tenax-TA trap and analyzed with GC and GC-MS. Significant differences in volatile emissions were observed for rice plants with different treatments. Undamaged control plants, mechanically damaged plants and the plants infested by BPH for 1 or 2 d emitted much lower amounts of volatiles compared to the plants infested by BPH for 3 or 5 d. The plants infested by BPH for 3 or 5 d emitted several volatiles that were not detected in undamaged control plants, mechanically damaged plants or the plants infested by BPH for 1 or 2 d. Spodoptera litura infested plants released much higher amounts of volatiles than those in all other treatments, and the contents of several green leaf volatiles, methyl salicylate and terpenoids increased dramatically. In dual-choice flight tunnel experiments, adult BPH females showed no significant preference between the untreated healthy plants and mechanically damaged plants or the plants infested by BPH adult females. However, rice plants damaged by S. litura had a clearly repellent effects on BPH adult females compared to healthy undamaged plants, mechanically damaged plants or the plants infested by BPH.