Abstract
In Mie Prefecture in Japan, rice blast isolates resistant to melanin biosynthesis inhibitors targeting scytalone dehydratase (SDH) were first observed in 2005. To analyze the distribution of the resistant isolates, 527 isolates were collected from wide areas in this prefecture during 2006 and 2007. Almost half of the isolates collected (233 of 527 isolates) carried a point mutation in the SDH gene conferring the resistant phenotype. To compare population structures of resistant and sensitive isolates, we analyzed the isolates with repetitive-element-based PCR DNA fingerprinting using a single primer complementary to a sequence in the terminal inverted repeat of transposable element Pot2. A majority of the resistant isolates were classified into a single DNA fingerprint haplotype, Mie1. Despite its prevalence in the resistant isolates, Mie1 was not found in the sensitive isolates. Furthermore, in a dendrogram constructed from the DNA fingerprint data, Mie1 and six other haplotypes formed a cluster composed of resistant isolates alone. These results suggest that the resistant isolates that belonged to the Mie1 haplotype had migrated from regions outside Mie Prefecture and selectively propagated in a short period in this prefecture.
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We are grateful to N. Yasuda, National Agricultural Research Center, for providing the seeds of Japanese differential rice cultivars. We are also grateful to T. Higashi, former advisor to Mie Prefecture Science and Technology Promotion Center, for technical support for the inoculation experiments. Special thanks are due to K. Kuroda, Mie Prefecture Agricultural Research Institute, for valuable suggestions.
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Suzuki, H., Suzuki, F., Kusaba, M. et al. Population structure of rice blast isolates resistant to scytalone dehydratase inhibitors in Mie Prefecture and implications for their origin. J Gen Plant Pathol 78, 106–114 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-012-0365-y
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