
Gene Enhances Rice Tolerance to Tungro Virus
November 14, 2018
Researchers from Indonesian Institute of Sciences transferred and overexpressed the gene in rice cultivar IR64 via Agrobacterium mediated transformation using the pCAMBIA vector. We reported the overexpression of RF2a in transgenic rice plants cultivar IR64. Results showed better tolerance of the transgenic rice lines compared with non-transgenic IR64, with comparable tolerance levels tungro virus-tolerant rice cultivar Tukad Petanu. They also confirmed the role of the gene in the tolerance mechanism via qRT PCR and found increased levels of the gene in tolerant rice plants and low expression in the non-tolerant ones.
For more information, read the article in Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology.
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