A Step-by-step Protocol for Crossing and Marker-Assisted Breeding of Asian and African Rice Varieties.

Improving desirable traits of popular rice varieties is of particular importance for small-scale food producers. Breeding is considered the most ecological and economic approach to improve yield, especially in the context of pest and pathogen-resistant varieties development. Being able to cross rice lines is also a critical step when using current transgene-based genome editing technologies, e.

Closing the Information Gap Between the Field and Scientific Literature for Improved Disease Management, with a Focus on Rice and Bacterial Blight.

A path to sustainably reduce world hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition is to close the crop yield gap and, particularly, lower losses due to pathogens. Breeding resistant crops is key to achieving this goal, which is an effort requiring collaboration among stakeholders, scientists, breeders, farmers, and policymakers. During a disease outbreak, epidemiologists survey the occurrence of a disease after which pathologists investigate mechanisms to stop an infection.

Rice Yellow Mottle Virus resistance by genome editing of the Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica nucleoporin gene OsCPR5.1 but not OsCPR5.2.

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) causes one of the most devastating rice diseases in Africa. Management of RYMV is challenging. Genetic resistance provides the most effective and environment-friendly control.

Genome editing of an African elite rice variety confers resistance against endemic and emerging pv. strains.

Bacterial leaf blight (BB) of rice, caused by pv. (), threatens global food security and the livelihood of small-scale rice producers. Analyses of collections from Asia, Africa and the Americas demonstrated complete continental segregation, despite robust global rice trade.

Efficient -mediated Transformation of The Elite- Rice Variety Komboka.

Genetic transformation is crucial for both investigating gene functions and for engineering of crops to introduce new traits. Rice ( L.) is an important model in plant research, since it is the staple food for more than half of the world's population.