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Pusa Basmati-1885 (Bacterial leaf blight and Blast resistant)a new variety Pusa Basmati-1885 has been developed by the institute by improving the earlier developed and popular paddy variety Pusa Basmati-1121 and making it disease resistantlt is a medium duration Basmati rice variety with seed-to-seed maturity of 135 days with an average yield of 4.68 t/ha. Pusa Basmati 1885 is highly resistant to blast disease with a susceptibility index of 2.3 as compared to Pusa Basmati 1121, which is highly susceptible (susceptibility index of 7.3)