OsWRKY24, a blast-disease responsive transcription factor, positively regulates rice disease resistance

Autor: Naoki Yokotani, Eiichi Minami, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Masaru Ohme-Takagi, Masahito Shikata, Yoko Nishizawa, Nobutaka Mitsuda
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: SC10201810160024
NARO成果DBa
ISSN: 1610-739X
1345-2630
DOI: 10.1007/s10327-018-0768-5
Popis: WRKYs are plant-specific transcription factors that play important roles in disease response. Here, we showed that a WRKY gene in rice, OsWRKY24, was upregulated in response to inoculation with rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae. Its expression was also induced by wounding. Green fluorescent protein-fused OsWRKY24 localized to nuclei in rice epidermal cells, and OsWRKY24 had transactivation activity in yeast cells. In addition, functional repression of OsWRKY24 through a chimeric repressor (OsWRKY24-SRDX) greatly increased susceptibility to P. oryzae. These results indicate that OsWRKY24 is a transcriptional activator that positively regulates disease resistance in rice.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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