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Allelic analysis of sheath blight resistance with association mapping in rice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Jia Limeng, Yan Wengui, Zhu Chengsong, Agrama Hesham A, Jackson Aaron, Yeater Kathleen, Li Xiaobai, Huang Bihu, Hu Biaolin, McClung Anna, Wu Dianxing
Abstract excerpt
Sheath blight (ShB) caused by the soil-borne pathogen Rhizoctonia solani is one of the most devastating diseases in rice world-wide. Global attention has focused on examining individual mapping populations for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for ShB resistance, but to date no study has taken advantage of association mapping to examine hundreds of lines for potentially novel QTLs. Our objective was to identify ShB...
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