Os05g0149400

The rice Os04g0578000 was reported as OsACS2 in 2011 by researchers from the Japan.

Annotated Information

Gene Symbol

• Os04g0578000 <=> OsACS2

Function

• Cyanide, whose production is triggered by HR in infected tissue, contributes to the resistance in rice plants via restriction of fungal growth.

Mutation

• Pi-i-mediated resistance was compromised in transgenic rice lines, in which ethylene biosynthetic enzyme genes were silenced and then ethylene production was inhibited. The compromised resistance in transgenic lines was recovered by exogenously applying cyanide but not ethephon, an ethylene-releasing chemical in plant tissue.

Labs working on this gene

• Plant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
• Miyagi University, Sendai, Miyagi 982–0215, Japan (T.I.); and College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, 3–21–1 Chuo, Ami, Ibaraki 300–0393, Japan (M.H.)