Marker-assisted forward and backcross breeding for improvement of elite Indian rice variety Naveen for multiple biotic and abiotic stress tolerance

• Perumalla Janaki Ramayya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Perumalla Janaki Ramayya, Vishnu Prasanth Vinukonda

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Vishnu Prasanth Vinukonda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Perumalla Janaki Ramayya, Vishnu Prasanth Vinukonda

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Uma Maheshwar Singh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, International Rice Research Institute, South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC), Varanasi, India

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• Shamshad Alam,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Challa Venkateshwarlu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Abhilash Kumar Vipparla,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Shilpi Dixit,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Shailesh Yadav,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

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• Ragavendran Abbai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

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• Jyothi Badri,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad, India

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• Ram T.,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad, India

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• Ayyagari Phani Padmakumari,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad, India

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• Vikas Kumar Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-1648

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• Arvind Kumar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: arvind.kumar@cgiar.org

  Affiliations International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South-Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, International Rice Research Institute, South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC), Varanasi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5488-9410

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