The present invention discloses the application of the rice blast
fungus membrane protein gene MoPH1 in regulating the
pathogenicity of rice blast
fungus, belonging to the field of
biotechnology. In the present invention, a
gene knockout vector is constructed and introduced into the protoplasts of rice blast
fungus, and the
gene is knocked out from rice blast fungus by
homologous recombination to obtain the knockout
mutant ΔMoph1. Experiments prove that compared with the
wild type of rice blast fungus, the vegetative growth and development of the knockout
mutant ΔMoph1 are slow, and the number of conidia is reduced, the function of appressoria is abnormal, and it is more tolerant to
cell wall stress and osmotic stress, etc.; the
pathogenicity test shows that the deletion of MoPH1 significantly reduces the
pathogenicity of rice blast fungus; after the gene is complemented, its pathogenicity is restored to the
wild type level. The present invention proves that MoPH1 is a pathogenic gene of rice blast fungus. Studying the
membrane protein coding gene MoPH1 in rice blast fungus helps to deeply understand the pathogenic
molecular mechanism of rice blast fungus and provides a
target gene for the development of effective fungicides.