Molecular breeding strategy and challenges towards improvement of blast disease resistance in rice crop

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Ashkani, Sadegh ^a,b   Rafii, Mohd Y ^a   Shabanimofrad, Mahmoodreza ^a   Miah, Gous ^a   Sahebi, Mahbod ^a   Azizi, Parisa ^a   Tanweer, Fatah A ^a,c   Akhtar, Mohd Sayeed ^a,d   Nasehi, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SINDH AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d Gandhi Faiz e Aam College   (India)

Author keywords

DNA markers; Gene pyramiding; Marker aided selection; Molecular breeding; QTL mapping; Rice blast disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947437586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00886     Document Type: Review

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