Oryza sativa Transcriptome and Gene expression
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple food crops, serving as a significant source of calories for more than 50% populations, worldwide. Rice blast is an aggressive and damaging disease caused by the hemibiotrophic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which affects all parts of rice plants from the seedling to harvesting stage, resulting in 10-30% crop yield losses globally. Due to its significant economic important, the rice-M. oryzae interaction has become a key model for studying defense mechanisms of rice against M. oryzae. Monogenic lines such as; IRBLta2-Re was developed from LTH, harboring Pita2/Ptr gene which showed broad spectrum resistance against rice blast isolates. However, the defense mechanisms regulated by this gene in IRBLta2-Re line is remain poorly understood.