Citation: MD Pathak, Gurdev S Khush. 1979. Studies on varietal resistance to the brown planthopper at the International Rice Research Institute. Brown Planthopper: Pages 285-302. In: A Threat to Rice Production in Asia. Los Baños, Philippines.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, Nilaparvata lugens, plant breeding, biotype, mass rearing, germplasm evaluation, mechanisms of resistance, preference, antibiosis, tolerance, life history, sources of resistance, multilines, genetics of resistance, dominant gene, recessive gene,