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Screening landraces for additional sources of field resistance to cassava mosaic disease and green mite for integration into the cassava improvement program.
Journal of integrative plant biology - 1 Mar 2008
Raji Adebola, Ladeinde Oluseyi, Dixon Alfred
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Twelve cassava landraces were evaluated for sources of resistance genes to diseases and pests of major economic importance in Africa. The objective was to assess their levels of field resistance to mosaic disease (ACMD), bacterial blight (CBB), anthracnose (CAD), and green mite (CGM), compared to TMS30572, an elite cultivar widely adopted in Africa. Considerable genotypic variation was observed among cultivars...
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