due to its wide distribution
and ability to survive in wide range of environmental
conditions. Due to this disease, yield loss ranged from 1 to
50 %, meaning each year destroys abundant rice to feed
more than 60 million people and economic losses over $70
billion of dollar [7]. This loss in rice yield should be
minimized in order to help the marginal and poor farmers
of developing countries [8]. The fungus is able to develop
resistance to both chemical treatments and genetic resistance which is continuous threat to the effectiveness of
blast-resistant rice varieties. Hence, it is urgent to find out
strategies for developing durable resistance varieties to the
disease. In this perspective, major and minor genes can
contribute to producing durable resistance