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Improving the resistance of eggplant (Solanum melongena) to Verticillium wilt using wild species Solanum linnaeanum
2015-02-01
Abstract excerpt
Verticillium wilt, caused by Verticillium dahliae, is a soil-borne disease of the cultivated eggplant (Solanum melongena). The accession PI388846 from a wild species S. linnaeanum, shows resistance to Verticillium wilt. The introgression of its disease resistance gene into cultivated eggplants would allow for breeding disease resistant eggplants. In this study, interspecific hybridization and subsequent backcrossi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 19f0d21e-2b7b-5941-ba84-a5c7380bab80
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10681-014-1234-x
