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Quantitative resistance in potato leaves to late blight associated with induced hydroxycinnamic acid amides.
Functional & integrative genomics - 1 Jun 2014
Yogendra Kalenahalli N, Pushpa Doddaraju, Mosa Kareem A, Kushalappa Ajjamada C, Murphy Agnes, Mosquera Teresa
Abstract excerpt
Late blight is a serious economic threat to potato crop, sometimes leading to complete crop loss. The resistance in potato to late blight can be qualitative or quantitative in nature. Qualitative resistance is not durable. Though quantitative resistance is durable, the breeding is challenging due to polygenic inheritance. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified, but the mechanisms of...
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