Differential gene expression reflects morphological characteristics and physiological processes in rice immunity against blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae

• Main Authors: Azizi, Parisa, Yusop, Mohd Rafii, Mahmood, Maziah, Abdullah, Siti Nor Akmar, Musa, Mohamed Hanafi, Nejat, Naghmeh, Abdul Latif, Muhammad, Sahebi, Mahbod
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52461/1/52461.PDF; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52461/; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0126188

The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is a serious pathogen that jeopardises the world's most important food-security crop. Ten common Malaysian rice varieties were examined for their morphological, physiological and genomic responses to this rice blast pathogen. qPCR quantification was used...