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Higher copy numbers of the potato RB transgene correspond to enhanced transcript and late blight resistance levels.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Apr 2009
Bradeen James M, Iorizzo Massimo, Mollov Dimitre S, Raasch John, Kramer Lara Colton, Millett Benjamin P, Austin-Phillips Sandra, Jiang Jiming, Carputo Domenico
Abstract excerpt
Late blight of potato ranks among the costliest of crop diseases worldwide. Host resistance offers the best means for controlling late blight, but previously deployed single resistance genes have been short-lived in their effectiveness. The foliar blight resistance gene RB, previously cloned from the wild potato Solanum bulbocastanum, has proven effective in greenhouse tests of transgenic cultivated potato. In...
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