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Association mapping of North American spring wheat breeding germplasm reveals loci conferring resistance to Ug99 and other African stem rust races.
BMC plant biology - 14 Oct 2015
Bajgain P, Rouse M N, Bulli P, Bhavani S, Gordon T, Wanyera R, Njau P N, Legesse W, Anderson J A, Pumphrey M O
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BACKGROUND: The recently identified Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) race TTKSK (Ug99) poses a severe threat to global wheat production because of its broad virulence on several widely deployed resistance genes. Additional virulences have been detected in the Ug99 group of races, and the spread of this race group has been documented across wheat growing regions in Africa, the Middle East (Yemen), and West...
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