Rice is the most important food crop worldwide and sustainable rice production is important
for ensuring global food security. Biotic stresses limit rice production significantly and among …

Transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors are bacterial type III secretion proteins that
function as transcription factors in plants during Xanthomonas/plant interactions …

Background Jalmagna is a popular deepwater rice variety with farmers of India because of
its good yield under waterlogged condition. However, the variety is highly susceptible to …

Pusa RH10, the widely cultivated superfine grain aromatic rice hybrid, and its parental lines
Pusa6B and PRR78 are susceptible to bacterial blight (BB) disease caused by …

CMS Cytoplasmic male sterility COS Conserved orthologous set DArT Diversity array
technology eQTL Expression QTL ESTs Expressed sequence tags FM Functional markers …

Bacterial blight (BB) disease and submergence due to flash flood are the two major
constraints for achieving higher yield from rainfed lowland rice. Marker-assisted backcross …

Tainung82 (TNG82) is one of the most popular japonica varieties in Taiwan due to its
relatively high yield and grain quality, however, TNG82 is susceptible to bacterial blight (BB) …

Marker‐assisted simultaneous but stepwise backcross breeding (MASS‐BB) was utilized in
the present study for pyramiding blast resistance genes, Piz5 and Pi54, from non‐Basmati …

Using DNA markers in plant breeding with marker‐assisted selection (MAS) could greatly
improve the precision and efficiency of selection, leading to the accelerated development of …

Rice cultivation has drastically increased in Africa over the last decade. During this time, the
region has also seen a rise in the incidence of rice bacterial blight caused by the pathogen …