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Improved versions of rice maintainer line, APMS 6B, possessing two resistance genes, Xa21 and Xa38, exhibit high level of resistance to bacterial blight disease
2018-08-01
Abstract excerpt
APMS 6B is the stable maintainer of the CMS line APMS 6A, which is the female parent of the popular Indian rice hybrid DRRH 3. APMS 6B has good combining ability and plant stature but is highly susceptible to bacterial blight (BB) disease. In order to improve the BB resistance of APMS 6B, we pyramided two major, dominant BB resistance genes, Xa21 and Xa38, through marker-assisted backcross breeding (MABB). Improve...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a6b30117-3790-503e-8d89-eea21b010bc6
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11032-018-0853-7
