Disease and insect pest resistance and agronomic traits of rice variety ZH5 with sheath blight resistance

An experiment on identification of disease and insect pest resistance was conducted through artificial and natural disease inoculations in greenhouse and fields in 2005 and 2006.The results indicated that ZH5 was resistant to rice sheath blight(Rhizoctonia solani),rice blast(Magnaporthe grisea),rice bacterial leaf blight(Xanthomonas campestris pv.oryzae)as well as the brown planthopper(Nilaparvata lugens).ZH5 showed good agronomic characters and ideal plant types.With high quality,high yield and multiple resistance,ZH5 is an ideal material for green and high quality rice production,and also for multiple-resistance rice breeding,especially for sheath blight-resistant rice breeding.