Cong Zhou, Qian Zhang, Yu Chen, Jin Huang, Qin Guo, Yi Li, Wensheng Wang, Yongfu Qiu, Wei Guan, Jing Zhang, Jianping Guo, Shaojie Shi, Di Wu, Xiaohong Zheng, Lingyun Nie, Jiaoyan Tan, Chaomei Huang, Yinhua Ma, Fang Yang, Xiqin Fu, Bo Du, Lili Zhu, Rongzhi Chen, Zhikang Li, Longping Yuan, Guangcun He
Interactions and co-evolution between plants and herbivorous insects are critically important in agriculture. Brown planthopper (BPH) is the most severe insect of rice, and the biotypes adapt to feed on different rice genotypes. Here, we present genomics analyses on 1,520 global rice germplasm for resistance to three BPH biotypes. Genome-wide association studies identified 3,502 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 59 loci associated with BPH resistance in rice. We cloned a previously unidentified gene Bph37 that confers resistance to BPH...
July 24, 2021: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology