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Annals of Botany 91: 227-241, 2003
© 2003 Annals of Botany Company

Physiological and Molecular Basis of Susceptibility and Tolerance of Rice Plants to Complete Submergence

MICHAEL B. JACKSON*,1,2 and PHOOL C. RAM3

1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK, 2 Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Utrecht, Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands and 3 Department of Crop Physiology, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, 224-229, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

* For correspondence. Fax +44 (0)117 9289757, e-mail mike.jackson{at}bristol.ac.uk

Received: 22 November 2001; Returned for revision: 22 February 2002; Accepted: 3 June 2002

Rice plants are much damaged by several days of total submergence. The effect can be a serious problem for rice farmers in the rainfed lowlands of Asia, and runs contrary to a widespread belief amongst plant biologists that rice is highly tolerant of submergence. This article assesses the characteristics of the underwater environment that may damage rice plants, examines various physiological mechanisms of injury, and reviews recent progress achieved using linkage mapping to locate quantitative traits loci (QTL) for tolerance inherited from a submergence-tolerant cultivar FR13A. Progress towards identifying the gene(s) involved through physical mapping of a dominant tolerance locus on chromosome 9 is also summarized. Available physiological evidence points away from responses to oxygen shortage as being inextricably involved in submergence injury. An imbalance between production and consumption of assimilates is seen as being especially harmful, and is exacerbated by strongly accelerated leaf extension and leaf senescence that are ethylene-mediated and largely absent from FR13A and related cultivars. DNA markers for a major QTL for tolerance are shown to be potentially useful in breeding programmes designed to improve submergence tolerance.

Key words: Review, ethylene, flooding, rice, submergence, quantitative traits loci, stress tolerance.


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