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Current Status and Future Prospects for Research on Blast Resistance in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

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Rice is the most important food security crop and staple food of half of the world population. Major increases in rice production occurred during the past four decades of last century as a result of adoption of green revolution technology. Demand for rice continues to increase as a result of population increase and improvement in living standards particularly in Africa and Latin America. However, rate of increase of rice production has slowed down. It is estimated that we will have to produce 30% more rice in 2030. For this purpose we need rice varieties with higher yield potential and greater yield stability. Breakdown of blast resistance is the major cause of yield instability in several rice growing areas. Efforts are underway to develop rice varieties with durable blast resistance. More than 40 major genes as well as QTL for blast resistance have been identified. Monogenic resistance to blast is less stable but varieties with pyramided monogenes or QTLs are durably resistant. Rice research should focus on identifying more durably resistant genes, tagging of these genes with molecular markers and pyramiding these genes or QTLs through molecular marker-aided selection. Candidate gene identification through rice functional genomics has great potential for developing more durably resistant varieties.

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Khush, G.S., Jena, K. (2009). Current Status and Future Prospects for Research on Blast Resistance in Rice (Oryza sativa L.). In: Wang, GL., Valent, B. (eds) Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9500-9_1

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