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Abstract
The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens) and rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) are major constraints on rice production, causing extensive yield losses worldwide. Pyramiding multiple resistance genes is a key strategy for achieving durable and broad-spectrum protection against these pests and pathogens. We pyramided 13 resistance genes/QTLs (Bph10, Bph14, Bph15, Bph17, Pi2, Bph20, Bph21, Bph6, QBph3, QBph4, Bph18, Bph9, and Bph24) in the 9311 backgrounds through pairwise crossing, generating 30 pyramided lines, and true hybrids were identified by marker-assisted selection (MAS). Seedling-stage BPH resistance of the pyramided families was evaluated using the Standard Seedbox Screening Test (SSST), whereas leaf blast resistance of the selected lines was assessed by field evaluation of leaf blast. Most pyramided lines exhibited stronger resistance than their corresponding single-gene parental lines, and some also showed improved agronomic traits. These lines provide valuable breeding material for developing "Green Super Rice" with combined BPH and blast resistance and high, stable yield.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-026-01702-4.
期刊介绍:
Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer.
All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, pathology, plant breeding, and ecology among others.
Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, papers describing novel methods and review papers. All submission will be subject to peer review ensuring the highest possible scientific quality standards.
Molecular Breeding core areas:
Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits. Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, and QTL studies in crop plants.