Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 2 Deparment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Agrotechnology and Bioscience Division, Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Bangi, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 4 Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear agriculture (BINA), BAU Campus, 2202, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
J Sci Food Agric, 2016 Mar 15;96(4):1297-305.
PMID: 25892666 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.7222

Abstract

Blast caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is a significant disease threat to rice across the world and is especially prevalent in Malaysia. An elite, early-maturing, high-yielding Malaysian rice variety, MR263, is susceptible to blast and was used as the recurrent parent in this study. To improve MR263 disease resistance, the Pongsu Seribu 1 rice variety was used as donor of the blast resistance Pi-7(t), Pi-d(t)1 and Pir2-3(t) genes and qLN2 quantitative trait locus (QTL). The objective was to introgress these blast resistance genes into the background of MR263 using marker-assisted backcrossing with both foreground and background selection.

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