Transformation of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea to benomyl resistance

P. Kachroo; A. Potnis; B. B. Chattoo

doi:10.1023/A:1018589714357

Transformation of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea to benomyl resistance

P. Kachroo, A. Potnis, B. B. Chattoo

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Abstract

A transformation method based on a dominant selectable marker (benomyl resistance) was developed for the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. The heterologous gene for β-tubulin from Neurospora crassa (pBT3) was used to obtain benomyl-resistant M. grisea transformants at a frequency of 20 to 30/μg of DNA. Control transformations carried out with a plasmid conferring hygromycin resistance or a derivative of pBT3 containing a repetitive DNA sequence, yielded the same frequency of transformation as that of pBT3. Molecular analysis of the transformants indicated multiple integration of the vector DNA.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-187
Number of pages	3
Journal	World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018589714357
State	Published - 1997

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This work was supported by grants from the Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) and the Rockefeller Foundation (USA).

Keywords

Benomyl resistance
Magnaporthe grisea
protoplast transformation
selectable marker

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Biotechnology
Physiology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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Transformation of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea to benomyl resistance

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