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Whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) (Homoptera: Delphacidae) resistance in rice variety Sinna Sivappu

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Abstract

Whitebacked planthopper (WBPH) along with brown planthopper (BPH) has emerged as a major pest of rice in several Asian countries. Development and cultivation of varieties resistant to both planthoppers is an ecologically acceptable strategy to manage these pests. Sinna Sivappu, a Sri Lankan landrace, was reported to be resistant to both planthoppers. While inheritance of BPH resistance has been reported, the genetics of WBPH resistance in this variety is not known. Using a mapping population of 255 F2:3 families from Taichung Native (TN)1/Sinna Sivappu cross and 128 polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, genes or quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for WBPH resistance quantified in ten phenotypic tests were identified, adopting classical Mendelian segregation, correlation and QTL analyses. The inheritance pattern suggested that a single recessive gene controlled regulation of seedling damage score. Antixenosis or nymphal preference was influenced by two complementary recessive genes, whereas tolerance in terms of days to wilt was under the influence of a single dominant gene. Several of these phenotypic tests recorded high degree of positive or negative correlation between them, suggesting dependence or redundancy of the tests. QTL analysis revealed 13 loci associated with nine traits. Five major-effect QTLs were detected for damage score (chromosome 6), nymphal survival (chromosome 12), and days to wilt (three QTLs on chromosome 4). We suggest involvement of four WBPH resistance genes in Sinna Sivappu, designated as wbph9(t), wbph10(t), wbph11(t), and Wbph12(t). One of the recessive genes could be allelic to any of the recessive genes reported in cluster C on chromosome 6 which might confer resistance to both BPH and WBPH.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Project Director, Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad for the facilities and encouragement. This work was partly supported by a grant from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT F.No.BT/AB/FG-2 (PH-II) Sep-2009), Government of India.

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  1. Manish K. Pandey

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  2. J. S. Bentur

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    Kandu Ramesh, G. Padmavathi, Ram Deen, Manish K. Pandey, V. Jhansi Lakshmi & J. S. Bentur

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Ramesh, K., Padmavathi, G., Deen, R. et al. Whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) (Homoptera: Delphacidae) resistance in rice variety Sinna Sivappu. Euphytica 200, 139–148 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-014-1175-4

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Keywords

  • Whitebacked planthopper
  • SSR markers
  • Novel gene(s)
  • QTLs
  • Oryza sativa L.