RicePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00695-y
Changji Wang, Jingjing Chang, Lei Tian, Yu Sun, Enze Wang, Zongmu Yao, Libo Ye, Hengfei Zhang, Yingnan Pang, Chunjie Tian
{"title":"A Synthetic Microbiome Based on Dominant Microbes in Wild Rice Rhizosphere to Promote Sulfur Utilization","authors":"Changji Wang, Jingjing Chang, Lei Tian, Yu Sun, Enze Wang, Zongmu Yao, Libo Ye, Hengfei Zhang, Yingnan Pang, Chunjie Tian","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00695-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12284-024-00695-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sulfur (S) is one of the main components of important biomolecules, which has been paid more attention in the anaerobic environment of rice cultivation. In this study, 12 accessions of rice materials, belonging to two Asian rice domestication systems and one African rice domestication system, were used by shotgun metagenomics sequencing to compare the structure and function involved in S cycle of rhizosphere microbiome between wild and cultivated rice. The sulfur cycle functional genes abundances were significantly different between wild and cultivated rice rhizosphere in the processes of sulfate reduction and other sulfur compounds conversion, implicating that wild rice had a stronger mutually-beneficial relationship with rhizosphere microbiome, enhancing sulfur utilization. To assess the effects of sulfate reduction synthetic microbiomes, Comamonadaceae and Rhodospirillaceae, two families containing the genes of two key steps in the dissimilatory sulfate reduction, <i>aprA</i> and <i>dsrA</i> respectively, were isolated from wild rice rhizosphere. Compared with the control group, the dissimilatory sulfate reduction in cultivated rice rhizosphere was significantly improved in the inoculated with different proportions groups. It confirmed that the synthetic microbiome can promote the S-cycling in rice, and suggested that may be feasible to construct the synthetic microbiome step by step based on functional genes to achieve the target functional pathway. In summary, this study reveals the response of rice rhizosphere microbial community structure and function to domestication, and provides a new idea for the construction of synthetic microbiome.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140004051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the Genetic Diversity of Parents for Developing Hybrids Through Morphological and Molecular Markers in Rice (Oryza sativa L.).","authors":"Rakkimuthu Nivedha, Swaminathan Manonmani, Thiyagarajan Kalaimagal, Muthurajan Raveendran, Shanmugam Kavitha","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00691-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00691-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The advancement of hybrid technology plays a crucial role in addressing yield plateau and diminishing resources in rice cultivating regions. The knowledge of genetic diversity among parental lines is a prerequisite for effective hybrid breeding program. In the current study, a set of 66 parental lines was studied for diversity based on both morphological characters and microsatellite SSR markers. The genetic variability parameters unveiled that number of productive tillers per plant, single plant yield and hundred grain weight exhibited additive gene action. Mahalanobis D<sup>2</sup> statistics grouped the genotypes into ten clusters based on yield and grain traits. The principal component analysis identified four PCs with eigen value more than one accounting for 71.28% of cumulative variance. The polymorphic SSR markers produced 122 alleles among which the marker RM474 recorded the highest values for Polymorphic Information Content (0.83) and heterozygosity index (0.85). The genotypes were assembled in seven clusters based on jaccard distances using the Unweighted Pair Group method with Arithmetic Mean (UPGMA). The population structure divided the entire population into 3 subpopulations. In both clustering, there was difference in the assembling of genotypes, but, good performing genotypes identified through PCA were positioned in different clusters in both approaches. The genotypes CBSN 495 and CBSN 494 located in different clusters were identified as the potential restorers for high yielding and short duration hybrids. The hybridization among CRR Dhan 310, CRR Dhan 315, IR64 DRT, CB 17135 and WGL 347 can be performed to develop climate smart varieties with improved nutrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10894128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139944388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RicePub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00694-z
Zhanghao Chen, Wei Zhou, Xianyu Guo, Sheng Ling, Wang Li, Xin Wang, Jialing Yao
{"title":"Heat Stress Responsive Aux/IAA Protein, OsIAA29 Regulates Grain Filling Through OsARF17 Mediated Auxin Signaling Pathway.","authors":"Zhanghao Chen, Wei Zhou, Xianyu Guo, Sheng Ling, Wang Li, Xin Wang, Jialing Yao","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00694-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00694-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High temperature during grain filling considerably reduces yield and quality in rice, but its molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. We investigated the functions of a seed preferentially expressed Aux/IAA gene, OsIAA29, under high temperature-stress in grain filling using CRISPR/Cas9, RNAi, and overexpression. We observed that the osiaa29 had a higher percentage of shrunken and chalkiness seed, as well as lower 1000-grain weight than ZH11 under high temperature. Meanwhile, the expression of OsIAA29 was induced and the IAA content was remarkably reduced in the ZH11 seeds under high temperature. In addition, OsIAA29 may enhance the transcriptional activation activity of OsARF17 through competition with OsIAA21 binding to OsARF17. Finally, chromatin immunoprecipitation quantitative real-time PCR (ChIP-qPCR) results proved that OsARF17 regulated expression of several starch and protein synthesis related genes (like OsPDIL1-1, OsSS1, OsNAC20, OsSBE1, and OsC2H2). Therefore, OsIAA29 regulates seed development in high temperature through competition with OsIAA21 in the binding to OsARF17, mediating auxin signaling pathway in rice. This study provides a theoretical basis and gene resources for auxin signaling and effective molecular design breeding.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10876508/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139906367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OsNAC103, a NAC Transcription Factor, Positively Regulates Leaf Senescence and Plant Architecture in Rice.","authors":"Lina Sun, Hanqin Xu, Juan Song, Xiaoying Yang, XinYi Wang, Haiyan Liu, Mengzhen Pang, Youchuan Hu, Qi Yang, Xiaotong Ning, Shanshan Liang, Siju Zhang, Weijiang Luan","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00690-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00690-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leaf senescence, the last stage of leaf development, is essential for crop yield by promoting nutrition relocation from senescence leaves to new leaves and seeds. NAC (NAM/ATAF1/ATAF2/CUC2) proteins, one of the plant-specific transcription factors, widely distribute in plants and play important roles in plant growth and development. Here, we identified a new NAC member OsNAC103 and found that it plays critical roles in leaf senescence and plant architecture in rice. OsNAC103 mRNA levels were dramatically induced by leaf senescence as well as different phytohormones such as ABA, MeJA and ACC and abiotic stresses including dark, drought and high salinity. OsNAC103 acts as a transcription factor with nuclear localization signals at the N terminal and a transcriptional activation signal at the C terminal. Overexpression of OsNAC103 promoted leaf senescence while osnac103 mutants delayed leaf senescence under natural condition and dark-induced condition, meanwhile, senescence-associated genes (SAGs) were up-regulated in OsNAC103 overexpression (OsNAC103-OE) lines, indicating that OsNAC103 positively regulates leaf senescence in rice. Moreover, OsNAC103-OE lines exhibited loose plant architecture with larger tiller angles while tiller angles of osnac103 mutants decreased during the vegetative and reproductive growth stages due to the response of shoot gravitropism, suggesting that OsNAC103 can regulate the plant architecture in rice. Taken together, our results reveal that OsNAC103 plays crucial roles in the regulation of leaf senescence and plant architecture in rice.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869678/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139736052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Time and Enzyme Concentration on Sangyod Rice Bran Hydrolysate: Phytochemicals, Antioxidants, Amino Acids, and Cytotoxicity.","authors":"Chakkapat Aenglong, Wanwipha Woonnoi, Supita Tanasawet, Wanwimol Klaypradit, Wanida Sukketsiri","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00692-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00692-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the production of Sangyod rice bran hydrolysate (SYRB) from Sangyod rice, focusing on incubation times (1, 3, and 5 h) and alcalase enzyme concentrations (0, 0.7, and 1% v/v). The results demonstrated a concentration-dependent relationship: higher alcalase concentrations increased hydrolysate yield. Prolonged incubation, especially with alcalase, enhanced substrate breakdown, further increasing hydrolysate production. The degree of hydrolysis, reflecting peptide bond cleavage, depended on both incubation time and enzyme concentration, emphasizing the role of enzyme activity in efficiency. Moreover, color analysis (L*, a*, b*) and color difference (∆E) revealed intricate changes from enzymatic hydrolysis. Proximate composition analysis showed higher protein and lipid content with increased enzyme concentration and longer incubation times, whereas ash content varied with both factors. Hydrolysate powders exhibited higher moisture content than raw rice bran, indicating the impact of the hydrolysis process. The study also explored SYRB's antioxidant properties and cytotoxicity, which were sensitive to incubation time and alcalase concentration. Longer incubation increased DPPH scavenging activity, with the highest efficacy at 3 h. Meanwhile, ABTS scavenging displayed a delicate balance with alcalase concentration. The cytotoxicity study of SYRB revealed that all concentrations of SYRB were non-toxic to C2C12 cells, with cell viability values exceeding 70%.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10861414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139723857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RicePub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00693-0
Tao Yang, Linlin Song, Jinxian Hu, Luao Qiao, Qing Yu, Zonghua Wang, Xiaofeng Chen, Guo-Dong Lu
{"title":"Magnaporthe oryzae effector AvrPik-D targets a transcription factor WG7 to suppress rice immunity.","authors":"Tao Yang, Linlin Song, Jinxian Hu, Luao Qiao, Qing Yu, Zonghua Wang, Xiaofeng Chen, Guo-Dong Lu","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00693-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00693-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating diseases for rice crops, significantly affecting crop yield and quality. During the infection process, M. oryzae secretes effector proteins that help in hijacking the host's immune responses to establish infection. However, little is known about the interaction between the effector protein AvrPik-D and the host protein Pikh, and how AvrPik-D increases disease severity to promote infection. In this study, we show that the M. oryzae effector AvrPik-D interacts with the zinc finger-type transcription factor WG7 in the nucleus and promotes its transcriptional activity. Genetic removal (knockout) of the gene WG7 in transgenic rice enhances resistance to M. oryzae and also results in an increased burst of reactive oxygen species after treatments with chitin. In addition, the hormone level of SA and JA, is increased and decreased respectively in WG7 KO plants, indicating that WG7 may negatively mediate resistance through salicylic acid pathway. Conversely, WG7 overexpression lines reduce resistance to M. oryzae. However, WG7 is not required for the Pikh-mediated resistance against rice blast. In conclusion, our results revealed that the M. oryzae effector AvrPik-D targets and promotes transcriptional activity of WG7 to suppress rice innate immunity to facilitate infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10864242/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139730429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction of a Female Sterility Maintaining System Based on a Novel Mutation of the MEL2 Gene","authors":"Xia Wang, Shuting Yuan, Changjian Wang, Wei Yan, Gang Xie, Cuifang Wang, Shijun Qiu, Jianxin Wu, Xing Wang Deng, Chunjue Xu, Xiaoyan Tang","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00688-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12284-024-00688-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Background</h3><p>Hybrid rice has significant yield advantage and stress tolerance compared with inbred rice. However, production of hybrid rice seeds requires extensive manual labors. Currently, hybrid rice seeds are produced by crosspollination of male sterile lines by fertile paternal lines. Because seeds from paternal lines can contaminate the hybrid seeds, mechanized production by mixed-seeding and mixed-harvesting is difficult. This problem can be solved if the paternal line is female sterile.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>Here we identified a female infertile mutant named <i>h569</i> carrying a novel mutation (A<sub>1106</sub>G) in the <i>MEL2</i> gene that was previously reported to regulate meiosis entry both in male and female organs. <i>h569</i> mutant is female infertile but male normal, suggesting that MEL2 regulates meiosis entry in male and female organs through distinct pathways. The <i>MEL2</i> gene and <i>h569</i> mutant gave us tools to construct female sterility maintaining systems that can be used for propagation of female sterile lines. We connected the wild-type <i>MEL2</i> gene with pollen-killer gene <i>ZmAA1</i> and seed-marker gene <i>DsRed2</i> in one T-DNA cassette and transformed it into ZZH1607, a widely used restorer line. Transgenic line carrying a single transgene inserted in an intergenic region was selected to cross with <i>h569</i> mutant. F<sub>2</sub> progeny carrying homozygous A<sub>1106</sub>G mutation and hemizygous transgene displayed 1:1 segregation of fertile and infertile pollen grains and 1:1 segregation of fluorescent and non-fluorescent seeds upon self-fertilization. All of the non-fluorescent seeds generated female infertile plants, while the fluorescent seeds generated fertile plants that reproduced in the way as their previous generation.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>These results indicated that the female sterility maintaining system constructed in the study can be used to breed and propagate paternal lines that are female infertile. The application of this system will enable mechanized production of hybrid rice seed by using the mixed-seeding and mixed harvesting approach, which will significantly reduce the cost in hybrid rice seed production.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139677955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: Phosphate Transporter OsPT4, Ubiquitinated by E3 Ligase OsAIRP2, Plays a Crucial Role in Phosphorus and Nitrogen Translocation and Consumption in Germinating Seed.","authors":"Yafei Sun, Fang Zhang, Jia Wei, Ke Song, Lijuan Sun, Yang Yang, Qin Qin, Shiyan Yang, Zhouwen Li, Guohua Xu, Shubin Sun, Yong Xue","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00689-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00689-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10838254/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139681495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RicePub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00686-z
Jie Wang, Min Ao, Ao Ma, Jinlei Yu, Peng Guo, Shuangzhan Huang, Xiaoyuan Peng, Dae-Jin Yun, Zheng-Yi Xu
{"title":"A Mitochondrial Localized Chaperone Regulator OsBAG6 Functions in Saline-Alkaline Stress Tolerance in Rice.","authors":"Jie Wang, Min Ao, Ao Ma, Jinlei Yu, Peng Guo, Shuangzhan Huang, Xiaoyuan Peng, Dae-Jin Yun, Zheng-Yi Xu","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00686-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12284-024-00686-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2)-associated athanogene (BAG) family genes play prominent roles in regulating plant growth, development, and stress response. Although the molecular mechanism underlying BAG's response to abiotic stress has been studied in Arabidopsis, the function of OsBAG underlying saline-alkaline stress tolerance in rice remains unclear. In this study, OsBAG6, a chaperone regulator localized to mitochondria, was identified as a novel negative regulator of saline-alkaline stress tolerance in rice. The expression level of OsBAG6 was induced by high concentration of salt, high pH, heat and abscisic acid treatments. Overexpression of OsBAG6 in rice resulted in significantly reduced plant heights, grain size, grain weight, as well as higher sensitivity to saline-alkaline stress. By contrast, the osbag6 loss-of-function mutants exhibited decreased sensitivity to saline-alkaline stress. The transcriptomic analysis uncovered differentially expressed genes related to the function of \"response to oxidative stress\", \"defense response\", and \"secondary metabolite biosynthetic process\" in the shoots and roots of OsBAG6-overexpressing transgenic lines. Furthermore, cytoplasmic levels of Ca<sup>2+</sup> increase rapidly in plants exposed to saline-alkaline stress. OsBAG6 bound to calcium sensor OsCaM1-1 under normal conditions, which was identified by comparative interactomics, but not in the presence of elevated Ca<sup>2+</sup>. Released OsCaM1-1 saturated with Ca<sup>2+</sup> is then able to regulate downstream stress-responsive genes as part of the response to saline-alkaline stress. OsBAG6 also interacted with energy biosynthesis and metabolic pathway proteins that are involved in plant growth and saline-alkaline stress response mechanisms. This study reveals a novel function for mitochondrial localized OsBAG6 proteins in the saline-alkaline stress response alongside OsCaM1-1.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"17 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10803725/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139513657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RicePub Date : 2024-01-20DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00683-2
{"title":"Defense Responses of Different Rice Varieties Affect Growth Performance and Food Utilization of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Larvae","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12284-024-00683-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12284-024-00683-2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Rice leaf folder, <em>Cnaphalocrocis medinalis</em> (Guenée), is one of the most serious pests on rice. At present, chemical control is the main method for controlling this pest. However, the indiscriminate use of chemical insecticides has non-target effects and may cause environmental pollution. Besides, leaf curling behavior by <em>C. medinalis</em> may indirectly reduce the efficacy of chemical spray. Therefore, it is crucial to cultivate efficient rice varieties resistant to this pest. Previous studies have found that three different rice varieties, Zhongzao39 (ZZ39), Xiushui134 (XS134), and Yongyou1540 (YY1540), had varying degrees of infestation by <em>C. medinalis</em>. However, it is currently unclear whether the reason for this difference is related to the difference in defense ability of the three rice varieties against the infestation of <em>C. medinalis</em>. To explore this issue, the current study investigated the effects of three rice varieties on the growth performance and food utilization capability of the 4th instar <em>C. medinalis</em>. Further, it elucidated the differences in defense responses among different rice varieties based on the differences in leaf physiological and biochemical indicators and their impact on population occurrence. The results showed that the larval survival rate was the lowest, and the development period was significantly prolonged after feeding on YY1540. This was not related to the differences in leaf wax, pigments, and nutritional components among the three rice varieties nor to the feeding preferences of the larvae. The rate of superoxide anion production, hydrogen peroxide content, and the activity of three protective enzymes were negatively correlated with larval survival rate, and they all showed the highest in YY1540 leaves. Compared to other tested varieties, although the larvae feeding on YY1540 had higher conversion efficiency of ingested food and lower relative consumption rate, their relative growth was faster, indicating stronger food utilization capability. However, they had a lower accumulation of protein. This suggests that different rice varieties had different levels of oxidative stress after infestation by <em>C. medinalis</em>. The defense response of YY1540 was more intense, which was not conducive to the development of the larvae population. These results will provide new insights into the interaction mechanism between different rice varieties and <em>C. medinalis</em> and provide a theoretical basis for cultivating rice varieties resistant to this pest.</p>","PeriodicalId":21408,"journal":{"name":"Rice","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139510309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}