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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (24): 98-103.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0486

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Effects of Pyramiding of Two Rice Blast Resistance Genes on Resistance of Rice Cultivar ‘Yunjing 37’

DONG Liying1(), XIANG Jinqian1,2, LIU Pei1(), LIU Shufang1, LI Qicheng3, CHEN Jianchen1,2, YANG Qinzhong1()   

  1. 1 Institute of Agricultural Environment Resource Research, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Green Prevention and Control of Agricultural Transboundary Pest of Yunnan Province/Yunnan Seed Laboratory/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Rice Genetic Improvement, Kunming 650205
    2 Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Kunming University, Kunming 650214
    3 College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201
  • Received:2024-07-17 Revised:2024-10-15 Online:2025-08-25 Published:2025-09-05

Abstract:

To improve the resistance of rice cultivar ‘Yunjing 37’ to Manaporthe oryzae, the rice cultivar ‘Yunjing 37’ was used as the recurrent parent. By employing a combination of conventional hybridization, backcrossing, selfing, and marker-assisted selection (MAS) strategies, the blast resistance genes Pi57 and Pi69 were pyramided into the japonica cultivar ‘Yunjing 37’. M. oryzae strains virulent to ‘Yunjing 37’ were used to evaluate the blast resistance of BC2F3 lines containing homozygous Pi57+Pi69, Pi57 or Pi69, as well as their parental materials, through artificial spray inoculation at the seedling stage. Results showed that plants possessing homozygous Pi57+Pi69 were resistant to all blast strains used in this study, while those lines containing only homozygous Pi57 or Pi69 exhibited resistance or susceptible reactions consistent with their donor parents. These results indicated that pyramiding of blast resistance genes can significantly enhance the resistance of rice varieties against M. oryzae. The newly developed materials will provide valuable germplasm resources for blast-resistant rice breeding.

Key words: Oryza sativa L., Magnaporthe oryzae, resistance genes, Pi57, Pi69, gene-pyramiding, evaluation