Marker-assisted pyramiding of two major, broad-spectrum bacterial blight resistance genes, Xa21 and Xa33 into an elite maintainer line of rice, DRR17B.

Bacterial blight (BB) disease reduces the yield of rice varieties and hybrids considerably in many tropical rice growing countries like India. The present study highlights the development of durable BB resistance into the background of an elite maintainer of rice, DRR17B, by incorporating two major...

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Main Authors: Balachiranjeevi C H, Bhaskar Naik S, Abhilash Kumar V, Harika G, Mahadev Swamy H K, Hajira Sk, Dilip Kumar T, Anila M, Kale R R, Yugender A, Pranathi K, Koushik M B V N, Suneetha K, Bhadana V P, Hariprasad A S, Laha G S, Rekha G, Balachandran S M, Madhav M S, Senguttuvel P, Fiyaz A R, Viraktamath B C, Giri A, Swamy B P M, Jauhar Ali, Sundaram R M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6201878?pdf=render