Incorporation of blast resistance into PRR78, an elite Basmati rice restorer lin.pdf

I t V D S a b c d e f g h a A R A K B B F G H M 1 t t 2 a i t y ( c t m 0 dField Crops Research 128 (2012) 8–16 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Field Crops Research jou rna l h om epage: www.elsev ier .com/ locate / fc r ncorporation of blast resistance into “PRR78”, an elite Basmati rice restorer line, hrough marker assisted backcross breeding ikas K. Singha,b, Atul Singha,b, S.P. Singhb, Ranjith K. Ellura, Vikas Choudharyc, S. Sarkel c, evinder Singha, S. Gopala Krishnana, M. Nagarajand, K.K. Vinodd, U.D. Singhc, R. Rathoree, .K. Prashanthi f, P.K. Agrawalg, J.C. Bhattg, T. Mohapatrah, K.V. Prabhua, A.K. Singha,? Division of Genetics, Rice Section, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, C.C.S. University, Meerut 200005, India Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India Rice Breeding and Genetics Research Centre, Aduthurai, Tamil Nadu 612101, India Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, H.P. Agricultural University, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh 176062, India University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka 580005, India Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora 263060, Uttarakhand, India National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India r t i c l e i n f o rticle history: eceived 8 December 2011 ccepted 13 December 2011 eywords: asmati restorer line last resistance oreground selection a b s t r a c t Pusa RH10, a popular high yielding superfine grain aromatic rice hybrid and its parents Pusa6A and PRR78 are highly susceptibility to blast disease. Marker assisted backcross breeding (MABB) approach was employed to incorporate blast resistance genes viz., Piz-5 and Pi54, from the donor lines C101A51 and Tetep into the genetic background of PR