OsAP79 plays antagonistic roles in rice development and
insect resistance
The dynamic balance between rice growth and resistance was often
antagonistic. For example, OsGH3.8 positively regulated pathogen
resistance and negatively regulated growth (Ding et al ., 2008).
The OE lines of the rice EF-hand family protein gene, OsEFH1 , led
to enhanced rice blast disease resistance but decreased grain yield (Liet al ., 2021). However, there have been increasingly more pieces
of evidence revealing that resistance and yield can be achieved
simultaneously. For instance, Deng et al. (2017) reported that the rice
resistance genes PigmR and PigmS confer durable resistance
to the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae without a yield decrease. Here,
the OE lines of OsAP79 enhanced BPH resistance, but decreased PL
and root length. Interestingly, the knockout lines of OsAP79 also
had decreased PL and TN, but increased BPH susceptibility and root
length. Therefore, further studies are needed to explore the
relationship between resistance and growth conferred by OsAP79 .