Sequence Variation and Recognition Specificity of the Avirulence Gene AvrPiz-T in Magnaporthe Oryzae Field Populations

Chenxi Chen^1,2#, Meilian Chen^1#, Jinnan Hu², Wenjing Zhang¹, Zhenhui Zhong¹, Yulin Jia³, Ludovic Allaux⁴, Elisabeth Fournier⁵, Didier Tharreau⁴, Guo-Liang Wang^2,6, Zonghua Wang¹, Wei-Chiang Shen⁷, Guodong Lu¹, Baohua Wang^1* and Thomas K. Mitchell^2*

¹Key Laboratory of Bio-pesticide and Chemistry Biology, Ministry of Education, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

²Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

³USDA-ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Stuttgart, AR, 72160, USA

⁴CIRAD, UMR 385 Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, F-34398 Montpellier, France

⁵INRA, UMR 385 Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, F-34398 Montpellier, France

⁶Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Hunan 410128, China

⁷Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author(s): Baohua Wang, Key Laboratory of Bio-pesticide and Chemistry Biology, Ministry of Education, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China, Tel: 86-591-86393212 Email: Thomas K. Mitchell, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, Tel: (614) 917-9053 Email: