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Padmanabhan, S.Y., Ganguly, D. Breeding rice varieties resistant to blast disease caused byPiricularia oryzæ Cav.. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 50, 289–304 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03051858
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