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Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, rice genetics, marker genes and linkage groups, biochemical markers, DNA markers, synteny among cereal genomes, RFLP probes, comparative genetics, sorghum, maize, oats, barley, wheat, gene tagging, QLT mapping, polygenes, biotechnology, marker assisted breeding, blast, bacterial blight, tungro, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera, gall midge Orseolia oryzae, insect pest resistance, disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, improvement of starch biosynthesis, gene silencing, wide hybridization, cytoplasmic diversification, alien genetic variation, wild rices,