Citation:

GS Khush. 1980. Breeding for multiple disease and insect resistance in rice. Pages 341-354. In: Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, host plant resistance, hoja blanca Sogatodes oryzicola, germplasm resources, improving the sources of resistance, rice blast Pyricularia oryzae, bacterial blight Xanthomonas oryzae, rice tungro virus disease, grassy stunt virus, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, wild rice, green leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera, gall midge Orseolia oryzae, stem borers Scirpophaga incertulas, Chilo suppressalis, breeding methods and procedures, pedigree nurseries, breeding strategies, inheritance of resistance, disease strains, insect biotypes, causes of resistance