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Maize leaf epiphytic bacteria diversity patterns are genetically correlated with resistance to fungal pathogen infection.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Apr 2010
Balint-Kurti Peter, Simmons Susan J, Blum James E, Ballaré Carlos L, Stapleton Ann E
Abstract excerpt
Plant leaves host a specific set of microbial epiphytes. Plant genetic and solar UV-B radiation effects on the diversity of the phyllosphere were examined by measuring epiphytic bacterial ribosomal DNA diversity in a maize recombinant inbred (RI) mapping population. Several chromosomal quantitative trait loci (QTL) with significant effects on bacterial diversity were identified, some of which had effects only in...
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