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Development Of Disease Resistant Rice Using Whole Genome Sequencing And Standard Breeding Methods, Yamid Sanabria Gongora
Development Of Disease Resistant Rice Using Whole Genome Sequencing And Standard Breeding Methods, Yamid Sanabria Gongora
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Cultivated rice is the most important staple crop in the world, but diseases cause substantial losses in grain yield and quality. Sheath blight disease caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia solani is the second most important disease in rice. Most U.S varieties are tropical japonica type, but known sources of resistance in this subspecies are rare. Silva et al. (2012) identified candidate SNP associated with resistance to sheath blight by whole genome sequencing. The objectives of this study were to develop SNP-based markers from the information reported by Silva et al. (2012), to validate the markers by selective genotyping in the …