) found only one variety with high resistance to bakanae and 12 with moderate resistance from a total of 411 rice accessions. None of the 204 rice accessions analyzed by Zheng et al. (1993) showed high resistance to bakanae and only 2.5% of them had moderate resistance. Similarly, a few accessions were reported to have high resistance to bakanae in other studies (Li et al., 1994; Lv, 1994; Khokhar and Jaffrey, 2002).