Pathogen effectors and plant immunity determine specialization of the blast fungus to rice subspecies

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Liao, Jingjing | Huang, Huichuan | Meusnier, Isabelle | Adreit, Henri | Ducasse, Aurélie | Bonnot, François | Pan, Lei | He, Xiahong | Kroj, Thomas | Fournier, Elisabeth | Tharreau, Didier | Gladieux, Pierre | Morel, Jean-Benoit

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BGPI : équipe 4 et 5. Understanding how fungi specialize on their plant host is crucial for developing sustainable disease control. A traditional, centuries-old rice agro-system of the Yuanyang terraces was used as a model to show that virulence effectors of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzaeh play a key role in its specialization on locally grown indica or japonica local rice subspecies. Our results have indicated that major differences in several components of basal immunity and effector-triggered immunity of the japonica and indica rice varieties are associated with specialization of M. oryzae. These differences thus play a key role in determining M. oryzae host specificity and may limit the spread of the pathogen within the Yuanyang agro-system. Specifically, the AVR-Pia effector has been identified as a possible determinant of the specialization of M. oryzae to local japonica rice.

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