eprintid: 11593 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 3170 dir: disk0/00/01/15/93 datestamp: 2020-09-05 15:24:54 lastmod: 2020-09-05 15:24:54 status_changed: 2020-09-05 15:24:54 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Molla, K A creators_name: Karmakar, S creators_name: Molla, J creators_name: Bajaj, P creators_name: Varshney, R K creators_name: Datta, S K creators_name: Datta, K icrisatcreators_name: Molla, S icrisatcreators_name: Bajaj, P icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K affiliation: ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack affiliation: Laboratory of Translational Research on Transgenic Crops, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata affiliation: The Huck Institute of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru) country: India country: USA title: Understanding sheath blight resistance in rice: the road behind and the road ahead ispublished: pub subjects: S2021 subjects: s2.13 subjects: s35 divisions: CRPS3 full_text_status: public keywords: Sheath blight, Rhizoctonia solani, Transgenic rice, Sheath blight QTL, Host–plant interaction, Rice disease resistance note: This work was funded by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, in the form of DBT Programme Support [Sanction no. BT/PR12656/COE/34/22/2015], DBT award ‘Distinguished Biotechnology Research Professor’ to SKD and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Govt. of India [Sanction No. CS11/7/2014-1A-IV dated 26.11.2014]. abstract: Rice sheath blight disease, caused by the basidiomycetous necrotroph Rhizoctonia solani, became one of the major threats to the rice cultivation worldwide, especially after the adoption of high-yielding varieties. The pathogen is challenging to manage because of its extensively broad host range and high genetic variability and also due to the inability to find any satisfactory level of natural resistance from the available rice germplasm. It is high time to find remedies to combat the pathogen for reducing rice yield losses and subsequently to minimize the threat to global food security. The development of genetic resistance is one of the alternative means to avoid the use of hazardous chemical fungicides. This review mainly focuses on the effort of better understanding the host–pathogen relationship, finding the gene loci/markers imparting resistance response and modifying the host genome through transgenic development. The latest development and trend in the R. solani–rice pathosystem research with gap analysis are provided. date: 2020 date_type: published publication: Plant Biotechnology Journal (TSI) volume: 18 number: 4 publisher: Association of Applied Biologists pagerange: 895-915 id_number: doi:10.1111/pbi.13312 refereed: TRUE issn: 1467-7644 official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13312 related_url_url: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.1111%2Fpbi.13312&btnG= related_url_type: pub citation: Molla, K A and Karmakar, S and Molla, J and Bajaj, P and Varshney, R K and Datta, S K and Datta, K (2020) Understanding sheath blight resistance in rice: the road behind and the road ahead. Plant Biotechnology Journal (TSI), 18 (4). pp. 895-915. ISSN 1467-7644 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11593/1/pbi.pdf