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Improvement of Basmati rice varieties for resistance to blast and bacterial blight diseases using marker assisted backcross breeding.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Jan 2016
Ellur Ranjith K, Khanna Apurva, Yadav Ashutosh, Pathania Sandeep, Rajashekara H, Singh Vikas K, Gopala Krishnan S, Bhowmick Prolay K, Nagarajan M, Vinod K K, Prakash G, Mondal Kalyan K, Singh Nagendra K, Vinod Prabhu K, Singh Ashok K
Abstract excerpt
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 genetic background of Pusa Basmati 1121 (PB1121) and Pusa Basmati 6. Foreground selection for target gene(s) was followed by arduous phenotypic and background selection which fast-tracked the recovery of recurrent parent genome (RPG) to an extent...
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