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SUBMITTER: Tan MY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2871099 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tan M Y Adillah MY Hutten Ronald C B RC Visser Richard G F RG van Eck Herman J HJ
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik 20100305 1
Despite efforts to control late blight in potatoes by introducing R(pi)-genes from wild species into cultivated potato, there are still concerns regarding the durability and level of resistance. Pyramiding R(pi)-genes can be a solution to increase both durability and level of resistance. In this study, two resistance genes, R(Pi-mcd1) and R(Pi-ber), introgressed from the wild tuber-bearing potato species Solanum microdontum and S. berthaultii were combined in a diploid S. tuberosum population. I ...[more]