Table 1.

Available and missing data for the nine genes selected for this study.

Gene name	Plant	Type	Altered resistance		Altered defence expression		Reference
			M. oryzae	X. oryzae pv. oryzae	Before infection	After infection
NH1	Rice plant (TP309)	Constitutive overexpression	Yes*	Yes	+	nd	Yuan et al. (2007); Chern et al. (2005)
BWMK1	Tobacco	Constitutive overexpression	nd	na	+	na	Cheong et al. (2003)
OsWRKY28	Rice plant (Kitaake)	Multiple overexpression of WRKYs	nd	Yes	+	nd	Peng et al. (2010)
OsEDS5	na	—	nd	nd	na	na	Vergne et al. (2007)
rTGA2.1	Rice plants (Liao Geng)	Constitutive RNAi	nd	Yes	+	No change	Fitzgerald et al. (2005)
CEBiP	Rice plant	Constitutive RNAi	Yes	na	nd	na	Kishimoto et al. (2010)
Pi21	Rice plant (Aichiasahi)	Constitutive RNAi	Yes	No effect	No change	Enhanced	Fukuoka et al. (2009)
SPL7	Rice plant (Norin 8)	Point mutation	Yes	nd	nd	nd	Yamanouchi et al. (2002); Yin et al. (2000)

^* NH1 required for benzothiadiazole‐induced resistance.

na, not applicable; nd, not determined.