Since the inception of the theory and conceptual framework of genomic selection (GS),
extensive research has been done on evaluating its efficiency for utilization in crop …

Develo** crops that are better adapted to abiotic stresses is important for food production
in many parts of the world today. Anticipated changes in climate and its variability …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Surveillance of the extracellular environment by immune receptors is of central importance
to eukaryotic survival. The rice receptor kinase XA21, which confers robust resistance to …

The world's population is increasing very rapidly, reducing the cultivable land of rice,
decreasing table water, emerging new diseases and pests, and the climate changes are …

The production and productivity of rice has been challenged due to biotic and abiotic factors.
Bacterial blight (BB) disease, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, is one of the …

Plant breeding has been very successful in develo** improved varieties using
conventional tools and methodologies. Nowadays, the availability of genomic tools and …

To facilitate the utility of SNP-based genoty**, we developed a new method called target
SNP-seq which combines the advantages of multiplex PCR amplification and high …

Marker assisted backcross breeding (MABB) provides a great opportunity for precise transfer
of desirable donor segment by minimizing the linkage drag into a recurrent parent. In our …

Marker assisted backcross breeding was employed to incorporate the blast resistance
genes, Pi2 and Pi54 and bacterial blight (BB) resistance genes xa13 and Xa21 into the …