Os02g57310

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is one of the most serious diseases of rice. Os02g57310, namely Magnaporthe grisea resistance-b, pib, the first blast-resistance gene to be cloned belonging to the nucleotide binding site (NBS) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) superfamily. pib has been mapped to the distal end of the long arm of chromosome 2 (Shinoda et al., 1971),and has been cloned and identified at the molecular level (Wang et al. 1999).

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