Abstract
The RESIDIV project is supported by the European Community. The project aims at improving our knowledge on resistance diversity in Chinese rice varieties and on the diversity of the pathogen for its ability to attack resistant varieties (avirulence/virulence). Chinese traditional rice varieties have a large biodiversity and characterization of this material will lead to the identification of new genes conferring resistance to the blast disease This knowledge will be of important value for breeders aiming to introduce the appropriate resistance genes by classical methods or by marker assisted selection to obtain durable resistance. The results of the RESIDIV project will be exploited through conventional breeding methods using natural defense systems.
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