Abstract
Panicle blast is the most severe type of rice blast disease. Screening of rice genotypes for panicle blast resistance at the field level requires an efficient and robust method of inoculation. Here, we standardized a method that can be utilized for both small- and large-scale screening and assessment of panicle blast infection and disease reaction. The method involves inoculation of Magnaporthe oryzae spore culture in the neck of the rice panicle using a syringe and covering the inoculation site with wet cotton wrapped with aluminum foil to provide the required humidity for spore germination. The method was standardized using panicle blast-resistant cv. Tetep and susceptible cv. HP2216 inoculated with Mo-ni-025 isolate of M. oryzae. The method was evaluated at phenotypic as well as molecular level by expression analysis of disease responsive pathogenesis-related (PR) genes. We found this method simple, robust, reliable, and highly efficient for screening of large germplasm sets of rice for panicle blast. This was validated by screening the wild rice germplasm for panicle blast response in the field using three M. oryzae strains and subsequently with the most virulent strain in 45 EMS-induced mutants of Nagina 22 shortlisted based on field screening in a blast hotspot region. We identified five novel blast disease-resistant wild rice genotypes and 15 Nagina 22 mutants that can be used in breeding programmes.
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The Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship from the University Grant Commission, The government of India, for VK, is acknowledged.
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The work was supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics, IASRI (CABin Scheme), ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi.
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Conceptualization: AS, AM and TS; methodology: VK, SB and PS; validation: VK and MT; investigation: AS, AM and MA; resources: NS, AS and AM; writing—original draft preparation: VK, SK, and AS; writing—review and editing: AS, AM, MA, NS and TS; supervision: AS; project administration: AS and AM; funding acquisition, AS, AM, AR and TS.
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Kumar, V., Singh, P.K., Karkute, S.G. et al. Identification of novel resources for panicle blast resistance from wild rice accessions and mutants of cv. Nagina 22 by syringe inoculation under field conditions. 3 Biotech 12, 53 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-022-03122-5
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