Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Highlights•Both R genes and DR genes contribute to broad-spectrum blast
resistance.•Existing broad-spectrum blast resistance pathways are intertwined.•Broad …

Increasing grain yield is a long-term goal in crop breeding to meet the demand for global
food security. Heterosis, when a hybrid shows higher performance for a trait than both …

Exploitation of heterosis is one of the most important applications of genetics in agriculture.
However, the genetic mechanisms of heterosis are only partly understood, and a global view …

Plants have developed effective mechanisms to recognize and respond to infections caused
by pathogens. Plant resistance gene analogs (RGAs), as resistance (R) gene candidates …

Over the last few decades, the use of molecular markers has played an increasing role in
rice breeding and genetics. Of the different types of molecular markers, microsatellites have …

Blast disease caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae is the most severe
diseases of rice. Using classical plant breeding techniques, breeders have developed a …

The broad-spectrum rice blast resistance gene Pi9 was cloned using a map-based cloning
strategy. Sequencing of a 76-kb bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) contig spanning the …

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; …

The rice blast resistance gene Pikm was cloned by a map-based cloning strategy. High-
resolution genetic mapping and sequencing of the gene region in the Pikm-containing …