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The fungal pathogen  Rhizoctonia solani  causes devastating diseases in hundreds of plant species. Among these,  R. solani  causes sheath blight, one of the three major diseases in rice. To date, few genes have been reported that confer resistance to  R. solani . Here, rice-FOX  Arabidopsis  lines identified as having resistance to a bacterial pathogen,  Pseudomonas syringae  pv . tomato  DC3000, and a fungal pathogen,  Colletotrichum higginsianum  were screened for disease resistance to  R. solani .  BROAD-SPECTRUM RESISTANCE2  ( BSR2 ), a gene encoding an uncharacterized cytochrome P450 protein belonging to the CYP78A family, conferred resistance to  R. solani  in  Arabidopsis . When overexpressed in rice,  BSR2  also conferred resistance to two  R. solani  anastomosis groups. Both  Arabidopsis  and rice plants overexpressing  BSR2  had slower growth and produced longer seeds than wild-type control plants. In contrast,  BSR2 -knockdown rice plants were more susceptible to  R. solani  and displayed faster growth and shorter seeds in comparison with the control. These results indicate that  BSR2  is associated with disease resistance, growth rate and seed size in rice and suggest that its function is evolutionarily conserved in both monocot rice and dicot  Arabidopsis .

The rice CYP78A gene BSR2 confers resistance to Rhizoctonia solani and affects seed size and growth in Arabidopsis and rice