Genomics-assisted backcross breeding for infusing climate resilience in high-yielding green revolution varieties of rice

Rice is the most important food crop both in value and volume for the Asian population. Frequent drought, flood and salinity stresses exacerbated by global climate change adversely affect rice production in more than fifty percent of the rice growing areas. Green revolution high yielding varieties carrying sd1 dwarfing gene have almost fully replaced the traditional climate resilient landraces and varieties of rice. However, these were bred...