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Genome Targeted Introgression of Resistance to African Stem Rust from Aegilops sharonensis into Bread Wheat.
The plant genome - 1 Nov 2017
Millet Eitan, Steffenson Brian J, Prins Renée, Sela Hanan, Przewieslik-Allen Alexandra M, Pretorius Zacharias A
Abstract excerpt
Many accessions of the wheat wild relative Sharon goatgrass ( Eig., ) are resistant to African races of the stem rust pathogen (i.e., Ug99 group races), which currently threaten wheat production worldwide. A procedure was designed to introgress the respective resistances to specific bread wheat genomes by producing plants homozygous for the A and B genomes and hemizygous for the D and S genomes or homozygous for...
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