# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My program focuses on the development of conventional inbred rice varieties for Texas producers using the conventional and molecular breeding tools that enhance cultivar release. Higher grainyield both in the main and ratoon crop, improved biotic and abiotic resistance and excellent grain quality are the priority traits for incorporation into the new varieties. Gene discovery for stress tolerance such as disease, herbicide, cold, flooding and drought through mass screening to identify new donors,  and gene mapping to locate the gene(s) is a major  part of the program.

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Rice Blast (pyricularia Grisea Sacc.; Pyricularia Oryzae Cav.; Magnaporthe Grisea)

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Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (rflp)

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# publications[].label
Registration of a Rice Gene-Mapping Population Consisting of 'TeQing'-into-'Lemont' Backcross Introgression Lines

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An improved 7K SNP array, the C7AIR, provides a wealth of validated SNP markers for rice breeding and genetics studies.

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Evaluation of Host-Plant Resistance of Selected Rice Genotypes to the Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

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Parental Selection in Rice Cultivar Improvement

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Evaluation of Host-Plant Resistance of Selected Rice Genotypes to the Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

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RFLP mapping and race specificity of bacterial blight resistance genes (QTLs) in rice.

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Soil Texture and Cultivar Effects on Rice (Oryza sativa, L.) Grain Yield, Yield Components and Water Productivity in Three Water Regimes.

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Development and Registration of 'Colorado', a High-Yielding Rice Cultivar

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BREEDING OF NEAR-ISOGENIC LINES FOR RESISTANCE TO RICE BACTERIAL-BLIGHT

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Registration of 'Antonio', a Very Early Maturing and High Yielding US Conventional Long Grain Rice Cultivar

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Severe outbreak of bacterial panicle blight across Texas Rice Belt in 2010

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LINKAGE ANALYSES OF RESISTANCE GENES TO BACTERIAL-BLIGHT IN RICE

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ORIENTATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE CLASSICAL AND MOLECULAR-GENETIC MAPS OF CHROMOSOME-11 IN RICE

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Mapping QTLs for field resistance to the rice blast pathogen and evaluating their individual and combined utility in improved varieties.

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Phenotypic gain from introgression of two QTL, qSB9-2 and qSB12-1, for rice sheath blight resistance

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Variations in farmer's seed and genebank accessions of Milagro Filipino rice (Oryza sativa L.) released in Mexico in 1967

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Field disease reaction of rice cultivars and elite lines in Texas

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Forty-eight Years of Rice Improvement in Texas since the Release of Cultivar Bluebonnet in 1944

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Relationship of milled grain percentages and flowering-related traits in rice

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GGE biplot analysis of performance in farmers' fields, disease reaction and grain quality of bacterial leaf blight-resistant rice genotypes

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GROUPING OF RICE CULTIVARS BASED ON REACTION PATTERN TO PHILIPPINE RACES OF BACTERIAL-BLIGHT PATHOGEN (XANTHOMONAS-CAMPESTRIS PV ORYZAE)

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RESISTANCE GENE OF RICE CULTIVAR, TAICHUNG NATIVE-1 TO PHILIPPINE RACES OF BACTERIAL-BLIGHT PATHOGENS

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Registration of 'Trinity' long-grain rice cultivar

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Genetic Mapping of Sheath Blight Resistance QTLs within Tropical japonica Rice Cultivars

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Overdominant epistatic loci are the primary genetic basis of inbreeding depression and heterosis in rice. I. Biomass and grain yield.

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Resistant starch: Variation among high amylose rice varieties and its relationship with apparent amylose content, pasting properties and cooking methods.

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Use of gross income as a measure of productivity in rice breeding

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Maximum node production rate and main culm node number contributions to yield and yield-related traits in rice

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First Report of White Leaf Streak of Rice Caused by Mycovellosiella oryzae in Texas.

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Mapping of four major rice blast resistance genes from 'Lemont' and 'Teqing' and evaluation of their combinatorial effect for field resistance

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Genetic and physical analysis of the rice bacterial blight disease resistance locus, Xa21.

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Overdominant epistatic loci are the primary genetic basis of inbreeding depression and heterosis in rice. II. Grain yield components.

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Registration of TIL:383.13, TIL:625 and TIL:634, Three Long Grain Tropical Japonica Rice Germplasm Lines Containing Novel Indica Alleles that Increase Tiller Production and Grain Yield

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A "defeated" rice resistance gene acts as a QTL against a virulent strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.

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Mapping and Validation of Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Tiller Production in Rice

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Increasing Rice Yield in Challenging Environments Due to Climate Change

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Beaumont; 9999 TAMUS

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# etdChairOf[].label
Kondhia, Aditi Nitinkumar (2010-08). Responses of High Biomass Rice (Oryza sativa L.) to Various Abiotic Stresses. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Mani, Dhananjay (2008-08). Characterization and genetic analysis of a very high tillering and dwarf rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant. Master's Thesis.