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Article: Study results from University of Saskatchewan in the area of applied genetics published.
- Article from:
- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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"Ascochyta blight (AB) caused by Ascochyta rabiei (teleomorph, Didymella rabiei) Pass. Lab. is an important fungal disease of chickpea worldwide. Only moderate sources of resistance are available within the cultivated species and we hypothesized that the available sources may carry different genes for resistance, which could be pyramided to improve field resistance to AB," researchers in Saskatoon, Canada report (see also Applied Genetics).
"Four divergent moderately resistant cultivars CDC Frontier, CDC Luna, CDC Corinne, and Amit were each crossed to a highly susceptible germplasm ICCV 96029. Parents, F-1 and F-2 generations were evaluated under controlled ...