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The Genetics of Leaf Flecking in Maize and Its Relationship to Plant Defense and Disease Resistance.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2016
Olukolu Bode A, Bian Yang, De Vries Brian, Tracy William F, Wisser Randall J, Holland James B, Balint-Kurti Peter J
Abstract excerpt
Physiological leaf spotting, or flecking, is a mild-lesion phenotype observed on the leaves of several commonly used maize (Zea mays) inbred lines and has been anecdotally linked to enhanced broad-spectrum disease resistance. Flecking was assessed in the maize nested association mapping (NAM) population, comprising 4,998 recombinant inbred lines from 25 biparental families, and in an association population,...
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