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Keywords: production of food grains in India 1950-1990, emergence of new insect pests, crop protection in rice, successive increases in yield of rice from 1930-1995, rice plant breeding, use of wild rices in breeding, crop protection in wheat, breeding for slow rusting/partial resistance: a step towards durability, identification of components of partial resistance, durable resistance to rust diseases and

their linkages with morphological markers, stripe rust resistance due to the Yr18 complex, a farming community level approach to IPM, rice as a host to mycotoxins, extension programs for rice IPM