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A barley cultivation-associated polymorphism conveys resistance to powdery mildew.
Nature - 19 Aug 2004
Piffanelli Pietro, Ramsay Luke, Waugh Robbie, Benabdelmouna Abdellah, D'Hont Angélique, Hollricher Karin, Jørgensen Jørgen Helms, Schulze-Lefert Paul, Panstruga Ralph
Abstract excerpt
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) has played a pivotal role in Old World agriculture since its domestication about 10,000 yr ago. Barley plants carrying loss-of-function alleles (mlo) of the Mlo locus are resistant against all known isolates of the widespread powdery mildew fungus. The sole mlo resistance allele recovered so far from a natural habitat, mlo-11, was originally retrieved from Ethiopian landraces and nowadays...
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