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Identification of adult plant resistance to stripe rust in the wheat cultivar Cappelle-Desprez.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jun 2012
Agenbag G M, Pretorius Z A, Boyd L A, Bender C M, Prins R
Abstract excerpt
Following the appearance of stripe rust in South Africa in 1996, efforts have been made to identify new sources of durable resistance. The French cultivar Cappelle-Desprez has long been considered a source of durable, adult plant resistance (APR) to stripe rust. As Cappelle-Desprez contains the seedling resistance genes Yr3a and Yr4a, wheat lines were developed from which Yr3a and Yr4a had been removed, while...
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