Evolutionary pathways of Xoo to race 9a, 9b, 9c, and 9d
are proposed based on the reaction phenotype (R, resistant; S,
susceptible; MS, moderately susceptible) on rice lines with
R genes Xa7 or Xa4,
presence or absence of the XorI restriction modification
system (32), genotype (haplotype) as determined by PCR assays (30, 31),
and the presence or absence of a 4.2-kb BamHI fragment
that corresponds to most of the coding region for
avrXa7.