Pyramiding transgenes for multiple resistance in rice against bacterial blight, yellow stem borer and sheath blight

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-8

  Datta, K ^a   Baisakh, N ^a   Maung Thet, K ^a   Tu, J ^b   Datta, S K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bacterial blight resistance; Sheath blight resistance; Stable expression; Stem borer resistance; Transgene pyramiding

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; INSECT CONTROL; PLANTS (BOTANY);

SHEAT BLIGHT DISEASES;

GENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; HYPHOMYCETES; INSECTA; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SCIRPOPHAGA; SCIRPOPHAGA INCERTULAS; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPHOMYCETES; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XANTHOMONAS;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INSECTS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOCTONIA; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0036981444     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-002-1014-1     Document Type: Article

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