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Identification of Sources of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Resistance in a Collection of Wild Cicer Germplasm.
Plant disease - 1 Sept 2021
Mwape Virginia W, Khentry Yuphin, Newman Toby E, Denton-Giles Matthew, Derbyshire Mark C, Chen Kefei, Berger Jens, Kamphuis Lars G
Abstract excerpt
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is an important fungal pathogen of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), and it can cause yield losses up to 100%. The wild progenitors are much more diverse than domesticated chickpea, and this study describes how this relates to S. sclerotiorum resistance. Initially, the pathogenicity of nine Australian S. sclerotiorum isolates was examined on three Cicer lines to develop a robust phenotyping...
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