Climate change across the globe has an impact on the occurrence, prevalence, and severity
of plant diseases. About 30% of yield losses in major crops are due to plant diseases; …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the staple food for millions of people in Asia and the world; however,
it is also the largest consumer of freshwater resources worldwide. More than 75% of the …

In the last decade, association mapping (AM) has become a well-established method to
detect genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with agronomically important traits …

Rice sheath blight (RSB) is an economically significant disease affecting rice yield
worldwide. Genetic resistance to RSB is associated with multiple minor genes, with each …

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 …

Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae (Xoo) uses transcription activator-like effectors
(TALEs) to cause bacterial blight (BB) in rice. In turn, rice has evolved several mechanisms …

Background While a multitude of genotyping platforms have been developed for rice, the
majority of them have not been optimized for breeding where cost, turnaround time …

Background Salinity is an abiotic stress that negatively affects soybean [Glycine max (L.)
Merr.] seed yield. Although a major gene for salt tolerance was identified and consistently …

Key message Using QTL analysis and fine mapping, the novel recessive gene xa44 (t)
conferring resistance to BB was identified and the expression level of the gene was …

Background Bulk segregant analysis (BSA) combined with next generation sequencing is a
powerful tool to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL). The impact of the size of the study …