Rice Blast Management Through Host-Plant Resistance: Retrospect and Prospects

Agricultural Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-52

  Sharma, T R ^a   Rai, A K ^a   Gupta, S K ^a   Vijayan, J ^a   Devanna, B N ^a   Ray, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Avirulence gene; Blast resistance genes; Magnaporthe oryzae; NBS LRR; Pathogen inducible promoter; Pi genes

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; CLONING; FOOD SUPPLY; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

AVIRULENCE; BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY; HOST-PLANT RESISTANCE; INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING SITES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

BLAST RESISTANCE;

CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; PATHOGEN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RICE;

MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84864710133     PISSN: 2249720X     EISSN: 22497218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40003-011-0003-5     Document Type: Review

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