Transgenic rice plants expressing the antifungal AFP protein from Aspergillus giganteus show enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
The Aspergillus giganteus, antifungal protein (AFP), encoded by the afp gene, has been reported to possess in vitro antifungal activity against various economically important fungal pathogens, including the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. In this study, transgenic rice (Oryza saliva) constitutively expressing the afp gene was generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Two different DNA constructs containing either the afp cDNA sequence from Aspergillus or a chemically synthesized codon-optimized afp gene were introduced into rice plants. In both cases, the DNA region encoding the signal sequence from the tobacco AP24 gene was N-terminally fused to the coding sequence of the mature AFP protein. Transgenic rice plants showed stable integration and inheritance of the transgene. No effect on plant morphology was observed in the afp-expressing rice lines. The inhibitory activity of protein extracts prepared from leaves of afp plants on the in vitro growth of M. grisea indicated that the AFP protein produced by the trangenic rice plants was biologically active. Several of the T2 homozygous afp lines were challenged with M. grisea in a detached leaf infection assay. Transformants exhibited resistance to rice blast at various levels. Altogether, the results presented here indicate that AFP can be functionally expressed in rice plants for protection against the rice blast fungus M. grisea.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes, H20 - Maladies des plantes, Oryza sativa, plante transgénique, résistance aux maladies, Magnaporthe grisea, maladie fongique, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5438, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27619, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2328, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37090, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_11042, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/519959/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/519959/1/519959.pdf |
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