RICE SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3): 252-258.

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Pathogenicity of Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae on Brachypodium distachyon

  1. 1Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China; 2College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321000, China
  • 出版日期:2012-09-28 发布日期:2012-10-15
  • 通讯作者: WANG Jiao-yu ; SUN Guo-chang

摘要: Inoculation methods for rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae to Brachypodium distachyon were developed to investigate the infection process and symptom development in comparison with those on rice (Oryza sativa) and barley (Hordeum vulgare). M. oryzae could infect leaves, sheathes, stems and panicles of B. distachyon and cause blast disease. Spraying conidial suspension on either intact seedlings or leaf segments induced typical symptoms on B. distachyon. During the intact seedling inoculation, the symptom developed on B. distachyon leaves closely resembled that on rice; but the lesions on B. distachyon had better uniformity in shapes and sizes than those on rice or barley. In the leaf segments inoculation, only initial and low-developed lesions could be found on rice, while normal symptoms on B. distachyon and barley. Inoculated with low-virulent mutants of M. oryzae, B. distachyon produced low-level symptoms. The symptom level of each mutant on B. distachyon corresponded well to that on rice. In addition, typical infection processes presented on B. distachyon leaves: forming melanized appressoria, penetrating into host epidermis and then forming hyphae in epidermal cells. According to these results, B. distachyon can be used as a candidate for studying fungus-plant interactions and as a probable source of disease resistance.

关键词: Brachypodium distachyon, Magnaporthe oryzae, interaction, model plant, pathogenicity