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Improving the utility of nematode resistance in groundnut.
Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences - 1 Jan 2006
Starr J L, Simpson C E
Abstract excerpt
Host resistance to pests and pathogens, to be useful, must be introgressed into cultivars that possess the high yield potential and other important agronomic quality traits desired by the growers. The root-knot nematodes M. arenaria and M. javanica are only a subset of the several important pests and pathogens attacking groundnut. The resistance that was transferred from wild Arachis spp. to cultivated groundnut...
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