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Keywords: Oryza sativa, gene maps, disease and insect resistance, protocol for marker-aided selection, fine-mapping for flanking markers, recombination frequency, blast disease, selection based on single marker, RFLP maps, sequence tag sites, amplicon polymorphism, marker-assisted selection in breeding program, major gene resistance.