Citation: Gurdev S Khush, SS Virmani. 1985. Breeding rice for disease resistance. Pages 239-279. In: G E Russell (editor). Progress in Plant Breeding. Butterworths and Co., London. ISBN 978-1-4612-9478-8

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice diseases, disease resistance, blast, variation in pathogenicity, rice breeding, sources of resistance, inheritance of resistance, linkage relationships, sheath blight, leaf scald, brown spot, narrow brown spot, bacterial blight, bacterial streak, grassy stunt, virus diseases, stripe, ragged stunt, dwarf, hoja blanca, breeding methodologies, breeding philosophy, major accomplishments