CIGR2

• Symbol: CIGR2
• MSU: LOC_Os07g39470
• RAPdb: Os07g0583600

• Identification and characterization of two new members of the GRAS gene family in rice responsive to N-acetylchitooligosaccharide elicitor, 2003, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression.

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• Localization experiments using GFP-fusions of both CIGR1 and CIGR2 in a transient onion assay confirmed the nuclear localization of both rice proteins (Fig. 2), supporting the possible role of each as transcriptional regulators in the defense reactions.
• The fact that the induction of CIGR1 and CIGR2 is not inhibited by pretreatment with cycloheximide strongly indicates that these two gene products act in the early step of the elicitor-response.

• CIGR2, OsHsf23, The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23., The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23.
• CIGR2, OsHsf23, The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23., We show that a rice GRAS family protein, CIGR2, is a bonafide transcriptional activator, and through this function, targets the B-type heat shock protein-encoding gene OsHsf23 (Os09g0456800)
• CIGR2, OsHsf23, The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23., CIGR2 (Os07g0583600) is an N-acetylchitooligosaccharide elicitor-responsive gene whose activity, through the direct transcriptional control of OsHsf23, is required for mediating hypersensitive cell death activation during pathogen infection
• CIGR2, OsHsf23, The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23., RNAi lines of CIGR2 and OsHsf23 similarly exhibited the higher level of granulation in the epidermal cells of leaf sheath inoculated with an avirulent isolate of rice blast fungus
• CIGR2, OsHsf23, The elicitor-responsive gene for a GRAS family protein, CIGR2, suppresses cell death in rice inoculated with rice blast fungus via activation of a heat shock transcription factor, OsHsf23., Interestingly, we did not observe altered levels of resistance, suggesting that CIGR2 suppresses excessive cell death in the incompatible interaction with blast fungus via activation of OsHsf23