Rice is one of the most important crops in the world. The wild species of rice are expected to
have novel beneficial alleles that have been lost from cultivated rice during the process of …

Grain quality is one of the key targets to be improved for rice breeders and covers cooking,
eating, nutritional, appearance, milling, and sensory properties. Cooking and eating quality …

Background Protein, starch, amylose and total soluble sugars are basic metabolites of seed
that influence the eating, cooking and nutritional qualities of rice. Chlorophyll is responsible …

Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for grain mineral elements can assist in faster
and more precise development of micronutrient dense rice varieties through marker-assisted …

Micronutrient especially iron and zinc-enriched rice hold immense promise for sustainable
and cost-effective solutions to overcome malnutrition. In this context, BC2F5 population …

Chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) are useful tools for precise mapping of
quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and the evaluation of gene action and interaction in inter …

Rice grain shape and nutritional quality traits have high economic value for commercial
production of rice and largely determine the market price, besides influencing the global …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is life for more than half of the human population on Earth. In the
history of rice breeding, two major yield breakthroughs or leaps occurred, which …

Rice Tungro disease poses a threat to rice production in Asia. Marker assisted backcross
breeding is the most feasible approach to address the tungro disease. We targeted to …

Oryza nivara, an annual wild AA-genome species of rice, is an important gene pool for
broadening the genetic diversity of cultivated rice (O. sativa L.). Towards identifying and …