Breakthrough in the resistance to the “AIDS of rice

‘NIL 130’ was named “best rice variety”
among seven being evaluated by a farmers’ cooperative in Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire.
NIL 130 is a ‘near-isogenic line’ derived from ‘elite’ rice variety IR64
by the introduction of a gene for resistance to (RYMV) through a process known
as ‘marker-assisted breeding’ (MAB).





“Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV)
is probably the stress that benefits the most