Gene Pyramiding for Achieving Enhanced Resistance to Bacterial Blight, Blast, and Sheath Blight Diseases in Rice.

Bacterial blight, blast, and sheath blight are the commonest diseases causing substantial yield loss in rice around the world. Stacking of broad-spectrum resistance genes/QTLs into popular cultivars is becoming a major objective of any disease resistance breeding program. The varieties ASD 16 and ADT 43 are the two popular, high yielding, and widely grown rice cultivars of South India, which are susceptible to bacterial blight (BB), blast, and sheath blight diseases.

Laparoscopic Transabdominal Cervical Cerclage by Broad Ligament Window Technique.

Laparoscopic transabdominal cerclage (LTAC) is a well documented procedure for cervical incompetence. In this article we have done a detailed stepwise description of LTAC by broadligament window technique. This technique makes the procedure simpler, safer and easy to reproduce.