Understanding the Dynamics of Blast Resistance in Rice-Magnaporthe oryzae Interactions

BN Devanna, P Jain, AU Solanke, A Das, S Thakur… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

Molecular breeding strategy and challenges towards improvement of blast disease resistance in rice crop

S Ashkani, MY Rafii, M Shabanimofrad… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Rice is a staple and most important security food crop consumed by almost half of the
world's population. More rice production is needed due to the rapid population growth in the …

Introgression of “QTL‐hotspot” region enhances drought tolerance and grain yield in three elite chickpea cultivars

C Bharadwaj, S Tripathi, KR Soren, M Thudi… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With an aim of enhancing drought tolerance using a marker‐assisted backcrossing (MABC)
approach, we introgressed the “QTL‐hotspot” region from ICC 4958 accession that harbors …

Insight into MAS: a molecular tool for development of stress resistant and quality of rice through gene stacking

G Das, JK Patra, KH Baek - Frontiers in plant science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Rice yield is subjected to severe losses due to adverse effect of a number of stress factors.
The most effective method of controlling reduced crop production is utilization of host …

Advancement in the breeding, biotechnological and genomic tools towards development of durable genetic resistance against the rice blast disease

PK Sahu, R Sao, DK Choudhary, A Thada, V Kumar… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rice production needs to be sustained in the coming decades, as the changeable climatic
conditions are becoming more conducive to disease outbreaks. The majority of rice …

Breeding strategies and challenges in the improvement of blast disease resistance in finger millet. A current review

W Mbinda, H Masaki - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change has significantly altered the biodiversity of crop pests and pathogens,
posing a major challenge to sustainable crop production. At the same time, with the …

Marker Assisted Gene Pyramiding (MAGP) for bacterial blight and blast resistance into mega rice variety “Tellahamsa”

M Jamaloddin, CV Durga Rani, G Swathi, C Anuradha… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Bacterial blight (BB) and fungal blast diseases are the major biotic constraints that limit rice
productivity. To sustain yield improvement in rice, it is necessary to developed yield potential …

Improvement of Basmati rice varieties for resistance to blast and bacterial blight diseases using marker assisted backcross breeding

RK Ellur, A Khanna, A Yadav, S Pathania… - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Marker assisted backcross breeding was employed to incorporate the blast resistance
genes, Pi2 and Pi54 and bacterial blight (BB) resistance genes xa13 and Xa21 into the …

Development and evaluation of near-isogenic lines for major blast resistance gene (s) in Basmati rice

A Khanna, V Sharma, RK Ellur, AB Shikari… - Theoretical and applied …, 2015 - Springer
Key message A set of NILs carrying major blast resistance genes in a Basmati rice variety
has been developed. Also, the efficacy of pyramids over monogenic NILs against rice blast …

Marker Aided Incorporation of Saltol, a Major QTL Associated with Seedling Stage Salt Tolerance, into Oryza sativa 'Pusa Basmati 1121'

NN Babu, SG Krishnan, KK Vinod… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Pusa Basmati 1121 (PB1121), an elite Basmati rice cultivar is vulnerable to salinity at
seedling stage. A study was undertaken to impart seedling-stage salt tolerance into PB1121 …