Juansheng Ren, Fangyuan Gao, Xianting Wu, Xianjun Lu, Lihua Zeng, Jianqun Lv, Xiangwen Su, Hong Luo, Guangjun Ren
An urgent need exists to identify more brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål, BPH) resistance genes, which will allow the development of rice varieties with resistance to BPH to counteract the increased incidence of this pest species. Here, using bioinformatics and DNA sequencing approaches, we identified a novel BPH resistance gene, LOC_Os06g03240 (MSU LOCUS ID), from the rice variety Ptb33 in the interval between the markers RM19291 and RM8072 on the short arm of chromosome 6, where a gene for resistance to BPH was mapped by Jirapong Jairin et al...
November 23, 2016: Scientific Reports