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Monitoring of blast races to ensure durability of blast resistance in Japanese rice cultivars

Shinzo Koizumi, p.1-9

Proposal for a new international system of differentiating races of blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) by using LTH monogenic lines in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Nagao Hayashi and Yoshimichi Fukuta, p.11-15

Protocols for the sampling of diseased specimens and evaluation of blast disease in rice

Nagao Hayashi, Nobuya Kobayashi, Cassiana M. Vera Cruz and Yoshimichi Fukuta, p.17-33

Genetic characterization of universal differential varieties for blast resistance developed under the IRRI-Japan Collaborative Research Project using DNA markers in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Yoshimichi Fukuta, Donghe Xu, Nobuya Kobayashi, Mary Jeanie, Telebanco-Yanoria, Aris Hairmansis and Nagao Hayashi, p.35-68

Identification of blast resistance genes in IRRI-bred rice varieties by segregation analysis based on a differential system

Nobuya Kobayashi, Leodegario A. Ebron, Daisuke Fujita and Yoshimichi Fukuta, p.69-86

Comparison of DNA marker analysis of the blast resistance genes Pib and Pita in IRRI-bred rice varieties with gene estimation by conventional genetic analysis

Daisuke Fujita, Leodegario A. Ebron, Nobuya Kobayashi and Yoshimichi Fukuta, p.87-94

Blast resistance genes and their selection markers in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Yohei Koide, Nobuya Kobayashi, Donghe Xu and Yoshimichi Fukuta, p.95-122

Acknowledgements

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