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Identification of novel resources for panicle blast resistance from wild rice accessions and mutants of cv. Nagina 22 by syringe inoculation under field conditions
Panicle blast is the most severe type of rice blast disease. Screening of rice genotypes for panicle blast resistance at the field level requires an...
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Genetic improvement for blast resistance in high-yielding cold-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar Himalaya 741 by marker-assisted backcross breeding
Blast disease and cold stress are two major yield-limiting factors for rice under temperate climates. Marker-assisted backcross breeding approach...
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Phylogenetic analysis, molecular characterization and virulence profiling based on toxoflavin gene of an Indian BG1 strain of Burkholderia glumae causing panicle blight of rice
Bacterial panicle blight (BPB) caused by Burkholderia glumae (BG) has become significantly more prevalent in the rice-growing regions of North India....
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Finger Millet Improvement in Post-genomic Era: Hundred Years of Breeding and Moving Forward
Finger millet, grown on about 5 Mha globally under semi-arid environments of East Africa and South Asia, serves as an important dual-purpose crop to...
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Effect of Combined Application of Foliar Sprays of Orthosilicic Acid (OSA) with Basal NPK Fertilizer on Growth and Yield of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
PurposeBenefits of silicon to plant growth and yield in higher plants has been explored recently. This study was conducted to assess effects of...
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Current status on map** of genes for resistance to leaf- and neck-blast disease in rice
Blast disease caused by fungal pathogen Pyricularia oryzae is a major threat to rice productivity worldwide. The rice-blast pathogen can infect both...
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Reduction of cadmium accumulation in the grains of male sterile rice Chuang-5S carrying Pi48 or Pi49 through marker-assisted selection
To reduce cadmium (Cd) accumulation in the grains of rice Chuang-5S (C5S), a gene OsHMA3 and a QTL qlGCd3 related to low-Cd accumulation were...
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Decursinol chloroacrylates useful as fungicides
Natural products decursin and decursinol angelate were recently reported as benign fungicides for controlling rice blast. Inspired by the structural...
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SorGSD: updating and expanding the sorghum genome science database with new contents and tools
BackgroundAs the fifth major cereal crop originated from Africa, sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) has become a key C 4 model organism for energy plant...
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MicroRNAs Involved in Nutritional Regulation During Plant–Microbe Symbiotic and Pathogenic Interactions with Rice as a Model
Plants are constantly challenged with numerous adverse environmental conditions, including biotic and abiotic stresses. Coordinated regulation of...
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Potential gene editing targets for develo** haploid inducer stocks in rice and wheat with high haploid induction frequency
Doubled haploid (DH) breeding is a powerful technique to ensure global food security via accelerated crop improvement. DH can be produced in planta ...
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Down regulation of transcripts involved in selective metabolic pathways as an acclimation strategy in nitrogen use efficient genotypes of rice under low nitrogen
To understand the molecular mechanism of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in rice, two nitrogen (N) use efficient genotypes and two non-efficient...
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Genome-wide association map** revealed numerous novel genomic loci for grain nutritional and yield-related traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces
A core set of 190 rice landraces were used to decipher the genetic structure and to discover the chromosomal regions containing QTLs, affecting the...
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Genome-Editing Advances for Disease Resistance in Plants
Global food security relies on agricultural crops, and their yield is affected by various phytopathogens. These phytopathogens are prevented by using...
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Effects of Nanoparticulate Delivery of Silicon on the Growth and Yield of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Silicon is a quasi-essential element despite of its critical role in growth and productivity of plants. Herein, we intend to assess the effects of...
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Somaclonal Variation in Rice: Retrotransposon Tos17 and Structural Variation with NGS Analysis
Phenotypic changes in regenerated plants observed from early times of the development of tissue culture methods in 1960s and 1970s, was termed...
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DNA Markers: An Essential Tool for Cis-genic Improvement of Rice
Steered by the green revolution, rice breeding programs across the globe have taken off on a path toward improving the rice crop, both in terms of...
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Status and Distribution of Plant Available Silicon in Relation to Some Soil Properties and Response of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) to Silicon Nutrition in the Intensively Rice Growing Soils of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India
Silicon (Si) is well known as a beneficial element which is extremely essential for sustained rice productivity. Therefore, an attempt was made in...
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CRISPR-Cas Technology: A Genome-Editing Powerhouse for Molecular Plant Breeding
Global human population is growing rapidly. The latest world population projections indicate human...
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Improved bioenergy value of residual rice straw by increased lipid levels from upregulation of fatty acid biosynthesis
BackgroundRice ( Oryza sativa ) straw is a common waste product that represents a considerable amount of bound energy. This energy can be used for...
