Recent decades have witnessed a surge in tropospheric ozone concentrations across many Asian countries, including Bangladesh, posing a significant threat to rice yields and regional food security. This study presents a comprehensive marker‐assisted breeding program designed to introgress two quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring ozone tolerance into elite Bangladeshi rice varieties. We crossed the donor landrace Kasalath wi...

Rising tropospheric ozone concentrations can cause rice yield losses and necessitate the breeding of ozone-tolerant rice varieties. However, ozone tolerance should not compromise the resistance to important biotic stresses such as the rice blast disease. Therefore, we investigated the interactive effects of ozone and rice blast disease on nine different rice varieties in an experiment testing an ozone treatment, blast inoculat...