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Next Generation Rice Disease Research

This Special issue covers insights and advances in basic rice biotic stress research. Specific pathosystems such as sheath blight limit rice production, specific advances in molecular rice susceptibility and resistance research.  

Guest Editors: Jonathan M. Jacobs and Guo-Liang Wang

  1. Emergence of new pathogen strains of Magnaporthe oryzae is a major reason for recurrent failure of the resistance mediated by a single resistance gene (Pi) in rice. Stacking various Pi genes in the genome through...

    Authors: Meifang Peng, Xiaomin Lin, Xiaoli Xiang, Huibo Ren, Xiaoli Fan and Kegui Chen
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:78
  2. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent internal modification present in the mRNAs of all higher eukaryotes. However, the role of the m6A methylomes in rice is still poorly understood. With the development...

    Authors: Qin Cheng, Peng Wang, Guangliang Wu, Yanning Wang, Jingai Tan, Caijing Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Shilei Liu, Shiying Huang, Tao Huang, Mengmeng Yang, Haohua He and Jianmin Bian
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:62
  3. Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is one of the most devastating diseases in rice all over the world. Due to the diversity and rapid evolution of Xoo, identification and use of...

    Authors: Wu Yang, Junliang Zhao, Shaohong Zhang, Luo Chen, Tifeng Yang, Jingfang Dong, Hua Fu, Yamei Ma, Lian Zhou, Jian Wang, Wei Liu, Qing Liu and Bin Liu
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:58
  4. Although panicle blast is more destructive to yield loss than leaf blast in rice, the cloned genes that function in panicle blast resistance are still very limited and the molecular mechanisms underlying panic...

    Authors: Jingfang Dong, Lian Zhou, Aiqing Feng, Shaohong Zhang, Hua Fu, Luo Chen, Junliang Zhao, Tifeng Yang, Wu Yang, Yamei Ma, Jian Wang, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Qing Liu and Bin Liu
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:51
  5. Utilizating the plant microbiome to enhance pathogen resistance in crop production is an emerging alternative to the use of chemical pesticides. However, the diversity and structure of the microbiota, and the ...

    Authors: Dagang Tian, Zaijie Chen, Yan Lin, Tingmin Liang, Ziqiang Chen, Xinrui Guo, Feng Wang and Zonghua Wang
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:40
  6. Xanthomonas oryzae (Xo) is one of the important pathogenic bacterial groups affecting rice production. Its pathovars Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc) cause bacterial ...

    Authors: Zhe Ni, Yongqiang Cao, Xia Jin, Zhuomin Fu, Jianyuan Li, Xiuyu Mo, Yongqiang He, Jiliang Tang and Sheng Huang
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:38
  7. Biotic stresses represent a serious threat to rice production to meet global food demand and thus pose a major challenge for scientists, who need to understand the intricate defense mechanisms. Proteomics and ...

    Authors: Kieu Thi Xuan Vo, Md Mizanor Rahman, Md Mustafizur Rahman, Kieu Thi Thuy Trinh, Sun Tae Kim and Jong-Seong Jeon
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:30
  8. Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most devastating bacterial diseases of rice in temperate and tropical regions. Breeding and deployment of resistant cultivars car...

    Authors: Jialing Lu, Chunchao Wang, Dan Zeng, Jianmin Li, Xiaorong Shi, Yingyao Shi and Yongli Zhou
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:22
  9. Avr-Pita was the first effector identified in the blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae)–rice (Oryza sativa) pathosystem. However, the molecular mechanism underlying its effects on the host plant has remained a long-s...

    Authors: Jingluan Han, Xiaoyu Wang, Fengpin Wang, Zhe Zhao, Gousi Li, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Jing Su and Letian Chen
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:12
  10. Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators in many physiological processes in plant. By high-throughput RNA-sequencing, many pathogen-associated LncRNAs were mapped in various plants, ...

    Authors: Lan-Lan Wang, Jing-Jing Jin, Li-Hua Li and Shao-Hong Qu
    Citation: Rice 2020 13:77
  11. The crop microbial communities are shaped by interactions between the host, microbes and the environment, however, their relative contribution is beginning to be understood. Here, we explore these interactions...

    Authors: Veronica Roman-Reyna, Dale Pinili, Frances N. Borja, Ian L. Quibod, Simon C. Groen, Nickolai Alexandrov, Ramil Mauleon and Ricardo Oliva
    Citation: Rice 2020 13:72
  12. Bakanae is a seedborne disease caused by Fusarium fujikuroi. Rice seedlings emerging from infected seeds can show diverse symptoms such as elongated and slender stem and leaves, pale coloring, a large leaf angle,...

    Authors: An-Po Cheng, Szu-Yu Chen, Ming-Hsin Lai, Dong-Hong Wu, Shih-Shun Lin, Chieh-Yi Chen and Chia-Lin Chung
    Citation: Rice 2020 13:65