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Keywords: Rice breeding for plant disease resistance, sources of resistance to major rice diseases resistance to blast Pyricularia oryzae, resistance to bacterial blight Xanthomonas orzae, international uniform blast nurseries, resistance to bacterial leaf streak Xanthomonas translucens, resistance to tungro virus, resistance to grassy stunt virus, resistance to sheath blight Thanatephorus cucumeris, improving sources of resistance, plasticity of pathogens and stability of resistant sources, the viruses, the bacterial diseases, sheath blight, blast, genetics of resistance, potential vulnerability