Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Raipur Agricultural University, Raipur.
Some indigenous landrace diversity of rice collected from diverse agroecological habitats and microniches with predominant tribal and ethnic population were screened against bacterial leaf blight (Xanthomonas campestris pv. oryzae Dye et al), brown plant hopper (Nilaparyata lugens Stal) and white backed plant hopper (Sogatella furcifera Horvath) prevalent in the field. The local landraces adapted to this region, namely, Agiyasal, Agyasar, Akkapm, Badshahbhog, Jhili and Karrigurmatia were resistant to all the above mentioned pathogens and pests. The study on inheritance showed that genic control was under single gene pair (monogenic).
