Marker assisted introgression of a major QTL (qDTY1.1) for grain yield

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With the change in environmental conditions, drought is emerging as one of the major threats to rice. As per India Meteorological Department, there was an early departure of monsoon in 2018, which resulted in failure of Hathiya Nakshtra, causing drought coincide with the reproductive stage, especially with the mega varieties of rice like Sita during reproductive stage. Hence, there is need to improve such varieties which can cope up with such a harsh period. With this view marker assisted introgression of a major QTL (qDTY1.1) for grain yield has been done to improve the drought resistance of the plants.

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Rishav Kumar belongs from West Champaran, Bihar. He had completed his schooling from Patna Central School at Patna. B.Sc. (Ag.) was from College of Agriculture, Kolhapur under MPKV Rahuri. M.Sc. (Ag.) and Ph.D. was in Plant Breeding & Genetics from Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar.

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