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Identification of a locus conferring dominant resistance to maize rough dwarf disease in maize.
Scientific reports - 19 Feb 2018
Li Ronggai, Song Wei, Wang Baoqiang, Wang Jianghao, Zhang Dongmin, Zhang Quanguo, Li Xinghua, Wei Jianfen, Gao Zengyu
Abstract excerpt
Maize rough dwarf disease (MRDD) is a severe viral disease of maize that occurs worldwide, particularly in the summer maize-growing areas in China, resulting in yield losses and quality deterioration in susceptible maize varieties. An effective solution to control MRDD is to use resistance genes to improve the behavior of susceptible genotypes. Here, we employed maize F2 populations derived from a cross between...
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