The Plant Pathology Journal (Jun 2014)

An Acidic PATHOGENESIS-RELATED1 Gene of Oryza grandiglumis is Involved in Disease Resistance Response Against Bacterial Infection

  • Sang Hyun Shin,
  • Jung-Hun Pak,
  • Mi Jin Kim,
  • Hye Jeong Kim,
  • Ju Sung Oh,
  • Hong Kyu Choi,
  • Ho Won Jung,
  • Young Soo Chung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.NT.11.2013.0112
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 2
pp. 208 – 214

Abstract

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Wild rice, Oryza grandiglumis shows hyper-resistance response to pathogen infection. In order to identify genes necessary for defense response in plants, we have carried out a subtractive hybridization coupled with a cDNA macroarray. An acidic PATHOGENESIS-RELATED1 (PR1) gene of the wild rice is highly identical to the acidic PR1 genes of different plant species. The OgPR1a cDNA has an apparent single open reading frame with a predicted molecular mass 40,621 Da and an isoelectic point of 5.14. Both in silico analysis and a transient expression assay in onion epidermal cells revealed that the OgPR1a protein could be localized in intercellular space in plants. The OgPR1a mRNA was strongly transcribed by the exogenous treatment with ethylene and jasmonic acid as well as protein phosphatase inhibitors. Additionally, ectopic expression of the OgPR1a conferred disease resistance on Arabidopsis to the bacterial and fungal infections.

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