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Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, anther culture, molecular-marker-aided selection, molecular maps, RFLP, gene tagging, bacterial blight, blast, tungro, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera, gall midge Orseolia oryzae, submergence tolerance, pyramiding genes, crosses with wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, broadening gene pool, wide hybridization, gene transfer from wild species, cytoplasmic diversification, alien gene variation characterization through RFLP markers, somaclonal variation, somatic hybridization, transformation, Bacillus thuringiensis, rice stem borer Scirpophaga incertulas, genes for disease resistance, sheath blight