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High-resolution mapping of resistance to cassava mosaic geminiviruses in cassava using genotyping-by-sequencing and its implications for breeding.
Virus research - 24 Jun 2014
Rabbi Ismail Y, Hamblin Martha T, Kumar P Lava, Gedil Melaku A, Ikpan Andrew S, Jannink Jean-Luc, Kulakow Peter A
Abstract excerpt
Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), caused by different species of cassava mosaic geminiviruses (CMGs), is the most important disease of cassava in Africa and the Indian sub-continent. The cultivated cassava species is protected from CMD by polygenic resistance introgressed from the wild species Manihot glaziovii and a dominant monogenic type of resistance, named CMD2, discovered in African landraces. The ability of...
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