Validation, Saturation, and Marker-Assisted Selection of Quantitative Trait Loci Conferring Adult Plant Resistance to Powdery Mildew in an Elite Wheat Breeding Population

Powdery mildew caused by <i>Blumeria graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> is one of the most devastating diseases in wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) worldwide. Hypersensitive, race specific genes primarily have been deployed to control the disease, however recent...

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Main Author: Tucker, Dominic M.
Other Authors: Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31600
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04012005-222659/