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Integrating marker-assisted background analysis with foreground selection for pyramiding bacterial blight resistance genes into Basmati rice.
Comptes rendus biologies - 1 Jan 2018
Baliyan Nikita, Malik Rekha, Rani Reema, Mehta Kirti, Vashisth Urvashi, Dhillon Santosh, Boora Khazan Singh
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Bacterial leaf blight (BB), caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae (Xoo), is the major constraint amongst rice diseases in India. CSR-30 is a very popular high-yielding, salt-tolerant Basmati variety widely grown in Haryana, India, but highly susceptible to BB. In the present study, we have successfully introgressed three BB resistance genes (Xa21, xa13 and xa5) from BB-resistant donor variety...
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