To improve blast resistance of the early season indica rice line 1701, a dominant functional DNA marker, Ins2-1, was developed based on the intron sequence of the broad-spectrum blast resistance gene Pi9 and marker-assisted selection breeding practice was implemented in this study. The main results were as follows: Ins2-1 showed stable polymotphism be- tween 1701 and 75-1-127,the Pi9 donor, and the selection efficiency of the marker genotype for blast resistance phenotype was 100%. A BC6F2 population,harboring the Pi9 gene and consecutive back...