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Introduction of bacterial blight resistance into Triguna, a high yielding, mid-early duration rice variety.
Biotechnology journal - 1 Mar 2009
Sundaram Raman M, Vishnupriya M R, Laha Gouri S, Rani N Shobha, Rao P Srinivasa, Balachandran Sena M, Reddy Gajjala Ashok, Sarma Nukala P, Sonti Ramesh V
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Bacterial blight (BB) is a serious disease of rice in India. We have used molecular marker-assisted selection in a backcross breeding program to introgress three genes (Xa21, xa13, and xa5) for BB resistance into Triguna, a mid-early duration, high yielding rice variety that is susceptible to BB....
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