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Bialaphos Treatment of Transgenic Rice Plants Expressing a bar Gene Prevents Infection by the Sheath Blight Pathogen (Rhizoctonia solani)

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Bialaphos resistant rice plants expressing a bar gene under the control of the maize ubiquitin promoter which were inoculated with mycelia of the sheath blight disease pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani, and subsequently treated with the herbicide were completely protected from symptomatic infection. Substantial suppression of sheath blight symptoms was also recorded when bialaphos was applied to transgenic plants which had been infected with R. solani two days before herbicide treatment. It may therefore be possible to design new agronomic strategies for the simultaneous control of weeds and fungal pathogens in fields of transgenic plants expressing a bar gene.

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  1. Alan H. Christensen

    Present address: Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4444

  2. Hirofumi Uchimiya: Corresponding author.

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  1. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113, Japan

    Hirofumi Uchimiya & Pallepitiya K. Samarajeewa

  2. Meiji Seika Ltd. Pharmaceutical Research Center, Yokohama, 222, Japan

    Michiaki Iwata, Chuhei Nojiri & Hiroyuki Anzai

  3. Fukui Agricultural Experiment Station, Fukui City, 910, Japan

    Susumu Takamatsu

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, Gifu City, 501-11, Japan

    Shinya Ooba

  5. University of California, Berkeley/U.S.D.A. Plant Gene Expression Center, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA, 94710

    Alan H. Christensen & Peter H. Quail

  6. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Seiichi Toki

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Uchimiya, H., Iwata, M., Nojiri, C. et al. Bialaphos Treatment of Transgenic Rice Plants Expressing a bar Gene Prevents Infection by the Sheath Blight Pathogen (Rhizoctonia solani). Nat Biotechnol 11, 835–836 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0793-835

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