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Mapping QTL conferring resistance in maize to gray leaf spot disease caused by Cercospora zeina.
BMC genetics - 22 May 2014
Berger Dave K, Carstens Maryke, Korsman Jeanne N, Middleton Felix, Kloppers Frederik J, Tongoona Pangirayi, Myburg Alexander A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gray leaf spot (GLS) is a globally important foliar disease of maize. Cercospora zeina, one of the two fungal species that cause the disease, is prevalent in southern Africa, China, Brazil and the eastern corn belt of the USA. Identification of QTL for GLS resistance in subtropical germplasm is important to support breeding programmes in developing countries where C. zeina limits production of this...
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