Centromere mapping and orientation of the molecular linkage map of rice (Oryza sativa L.).

Rice has become a model cereal plant for molecular genetic research. Rice has the most comprehensive molecular linkage maps with more than 2000 DNA markers and shows synteny and colinearity with the maps of other cereal crops. Until now, however, no information was available about the positions of centromeres and arm locations of markers on the molecular linkage map. Secondary and telotrisomics were used to assign restriction fragment length polymorphism markers to specific chromosome arms and thereby to map the positions of centromeres. More than 170 restriction fragment length polymorphism markers were assigned to specific chromosome arms through gene dosage analysis using the secondary and telotrisomics and the centromere positions were mapped on all 12 linkage groups. The orientations of seven linkage groups were reversed to fit the "short arm on top" convention and the corrected map is presented.

Oryza sativa; literature on the races of rice in India,

"Vegetable product series, no. 113."

Yield response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes to drought under rainfed lowlands 4. Vegetative stage screening in the dry season

Screening for drought resistance of rainfed lowland rice using drought score (leaf death) as a selection index has a long history of use in breeding programs. Genotypic variation for drought score during the vegetative stage in two dry season screens was examined among 128 recombinant inbred lines from four biparental crosses. The genotypic variation detected for drought score in the dry season was used to examine the reliability of the dry season screening method to estimate relative grain yield of genotypes under different types of drought stress in the wet season. Large genotypic variation for drought score existed in two experiments (A and B). However, there was no relationship between the drought scores of genotypes determined in these two experiments. Different patterns of development and severity of drought stress in these two experiments, i.e. slow development and mild plant water deficit in experiment A and fast development and severe plant water deficit in experiment B, were identified as the major factors contributing to the genotypes responding differently. Larger drought score in the dry season experiments was associated with lower grain yield under specific drought stress conditions in the wet season, but the association was weak to moderate and significant only in particular drought conditions. In most cases, a significant phenotypic and moderate genetic correlation between drought score in the dry season and grain yield in the wet season existed only when both drought score and grain yield of genotypes were affected by similar patterns and severity of drought stress in their respective experimental environments. The dry season environments used to measure genotypic variation for drought score should be managed to correspond to relevant types of drought environment that are frequent in the wet season. The efficiency of using the drought score as an indirect selection criterion for improving grain yield for drought conditions was lower than the direct selection for grain yield, and hence wet season screening with grain yield as a selection criterion would be more efficient. However, using drought score as a selection index, a larger number of genotypes can be evaluated than for wet season grain yield. Therefore, it is possible to apply higher selection intensities using the drought score system, and the selected lines can be further tested for grain yield in the wet season. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Genotypic consistency in the expression of leaf water potential in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Early work has shown variation in the grain yield of rice cultivars grown under water stress conditions to be associated with the plant water status, mainly with the maintenance of high leaf water potential (LWP) at flowering and grain filling stage. Considerable variation for LWP among rice varieties has been recorded. The present work was designed to investigate genotypic consistency in water potential within the plant and under canopy manipulation to vary plant water requirement. In a glasshouse experiment, with six rice genotypes, a consistent water potential gradient from stem base to leaf tip has been observed. Leaf tip water potential has been found as the minimum LWP that can be recorded at any time of stress. Genotypes with similar canopy size could maintain different levels of LWP under stress conditions. In a field experiment, with four selected lines, four canopy sizes and two canopy mixture treatments were introduced prior to the imposition of control, mild and severe water stress conditions. It was found that the line differences in LWP and relative water content (RWC) were expressed under both mild and severe stress conditions, regardless of canopy size, tiller number and whether they were mixed with another line with different capacity to maintain LWP. Although there were some differences among canopy size treatments for radiation interception in three water conditions, canopy manipulation (plant size) within a line did not affect the expression of LWP and hence genotypic variation in LWP was maintained. Under both glasshouse and field conditions, lines that maintained high LWP had larger xylem diameter and stem areas than those that had low LWP. The results indicated that the size of the vascular bundles could influence the maintenance of plant water relations under water deficit. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Salicaceae Endophytes: Growth Promotion Potential in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Maize (Zea mays L.) and Bio-Control of Plant Pathogen

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Fungi associated with foliar diseases of wild and cultivated rice (Oryza spp.) in northern Queensland

During surveys of wild and cultivated rice in northern Queensland in 2014 and 2015, 92 fungal isolates were obtained from plants that were afflicted by foliar diseases, including the rice blast pathogen, Pyricularia oryzae, and the brown spot pathogen, Bipolaris oryzae. Seven species of Curvularia were found, viz. Curvularia aeria, C. alcornii, C. asianensis, C. clavata, C. lunata, C. muehlenbeckiae and an undescribed species. To remove uncertainty about the identity of the host plants from which the fungi were isolated, a DNA barcoding strategy was developed using regions of the chloroplast genome. Pathogenicity tests using wild rice isolates of P. oryzae indicated that many local rice varieties are susceptible to infection.

Evaluación agronómica de nueve lineas avanzadas de arroz (oryza sativa L.) y dos testigos comerciales bajo condiciones de riego por inundación, Julio-Noviembre 2014, Valle de Sebaco, Matagalpa

El estudio de nueve genotipos avanzados de arroz y dos testigos comerciales se realizó en el centro experimental de arroz de ANAR en la finca Santa Rita en el Valle de Sébaco, con el objetivo de evaluar genotipos con mayor potencial de rendimiento y excelentes características agronómicas. Las parcelas fueron establecidas el 10 de Julio del 2014 y cosechadas del 12 al 14 de Noviembre El diseño experimental fue un BCA con tres repeticiones. Los datos obtenidos fueron analizados usando ANDEVA y prueba de TUKEY 5% de margen de error, atreves el software SAS 9.1. No hubo diferencias significativas para granos de diez panículas, peso de mil granos, granos llenos, grano yesoso, panículas por metro cuadrado, planta por metro cuadrado y rendimiento en granza. Hubo diferencias significativas en el porcentaje de fertilidad siendo la línea 109 estadísticamente superior, y las líneas 73, 248, 78, 71, y la variedad ANAR470 fue estadísticamente inferior. En la excersion de la panícula las líneas 18,90,ANAR97 fueron estadísticamente superiores al resto de materiales. En total de granos vanos los materiales ANAR470, 78, 71 fueron estadísticamente superiores y la línea 109 fue estadísticamente inferior con respecto amenos granos vanos en la muestra. Para grano excelso la línea 248 resultó ser superior estadísticamente y la Variedad ANAR97 resulto inferior estadísticamente. Para rendimiento de pilada de grano los materiales 248, 78 ,90, 73, A97, 18, 72, 71, A470, 2467 resultaron ser superiores estadísticamente con respecto a la línea 109. para la calidad relación entero/quebrado el material 248 resultó ser estadísticamente superior y la variedad ANAR97 resultó ser inferior estadísticamente, para desgrane la líneas 78, 90 resultaron ser superiores estadísticamente y el resto de materiales inferiores, para altura la línea 246 resultó ser superior y la línea 109 inferior con respecto a las demás, para tamaño de la panícula la línea 72 resultó ser superior estadísticamente en tamaño y la línea 248 resultó ser inferior estadísticamente con respecto a menor tamaño a las demás.