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Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, genetic resistance, stem borers, Chilo suppressalis, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera, green leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, rice leaffolder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, bacterial diseases Xanthomonas

campestris pv. oryzae, fungal diseases, sheath blight Rhizoctonia solani, blast Pyricularia oryzae, false smut Ustilaginoidea virens, kernel smut Tilletia barclayana, downy mildew schlerophythora macrospora, virus diseases, yellow dwarf, dwarf, yellow stunt, virus resistance, biotype, races, potential cytoplasmic susceptibility