The world's population is increasing very rapidly, reducing the cultivable land of rice,
decreasing table water, emerging new diseases and pests, and the climate changes are …

Highlights•Important insect pests continue to conform to the gene-for-gene hypothesis.•New
insect NB-LRR-encoding resistance genes have been identified.•Insect avirulence genes …

Severe yield loss due to various biotic stresses like bacterial blight (BB), gall midge (insect)
and Blast (disease) and abiotic stresses like submergence and salinity are a serious …

Background Unfavorable climatic changes have led to an increased threat of several biotic
and abiotic stresses over the past few years. Looking at the massive damage caused by …

Rice, a major food crop, is grown in a wide range of ecological conditions and suffers
significant yield losses as it is constantly exposed to a wide range of environmental and …

Gall midge is the third most destructive insect pests of rice after stem borers and
planthoppers. Host plant resistance has been recognized as the most effective and …

Gall midges are insects specialized in maneuvering plant growth, metabolic and defense
pathways for their benefit. The Asian rice gall midge and rice share such an intimate …

Damage caused by insect herbivores, notably Asian rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae is more
prevalent in the rice‐growing belts of India's southern and north‐eastern states. As a prelude …

Bacterial blight (BB) of rice caused by the pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and the
insect gall midge (GM)(Orseolia oryzae) are two major constraints of rice production. The …

Key message We report here tagging and fine-mapping of gm3 gene, development of a
functional marker for it and its use in marker-assisted selection. Abstract The recessive rice …