Citation: Gurdev S Khush. 1981. Breeding rice for multiple disease and insect resistance. Pages 220-238. In Rice Improvement in China and other Asian Countries. International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, hoja blanca, Sogatodes oryzicola, bacterial blight, grassy stunt, Nilaparvata lugens, brown planthopper, tungro, Nephotettix virescens, green leafhopper, blast, sheath blight, whitebacked planthopper, Sogatella furcifera, germplasm resources, gall midge, Orseolia oryzae, stem borers, Scirpophaga incertulas, multiple pest resistance, farmer adoption, pedigree breeding method, single seed descent, breeding procedures, donor parents, hybridization, F2 populations, pedigree nurseries, breeding strategies, inheritance of resistance, variation in disease and insect organisms, races, biotypes, causes of resistance