Allele Mining and Expression Profiling of Resistance- and Avirulence- genes in Rice-Blast Pathosystem for Development of Race Non-Specific Disease Resistance

 

Objectives

• Mining alleles of important blast resistance genes from rice and  Avr- genes from Magnaporthe  grisea
• Generation of race non-specific disease resistance using rice blast resistance gene Pi-kh and AVR:Pi-kh  gene from M. grisea.
• Expression profiling of near isogenic lines containing blast resistance genes to understand basic mechanism involved in disease resistance.