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Title: TAGGING OF DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES IN SUGARBEET

Author
item Weiland, John
item Lewellen, Robert
item Friesen, Timothy

Submitted to: Plant and Animal Genome VX Conference Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/20/2002
Publication Date: 1/3/2003
Citation: WEILAND, J.J., LEWELLEN, R.T., FRIESEN, T.L. TAGGING OF DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES IN SUGARBEET. PLANT ANIMAL AND MICROBE GENOME CONFERENCE. 2003. P. 69. ABSTRACT NO. W322.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: The characterization of genes that confer resistance to diseases important to sugarbeet production has been hampered by a lack of markers associated with these genes. In ongoing collaborative research, we have begun generating molecular genetic markers linked to various disease resistance genes for which segregating populations of sugarbeet have been produced. Using RAPD analysis applied to a population segregating for the Bm gene conditioning resistance to beet mosaic virus, candidate markers for this gene have been obtained. An update on the progress of using resistance gene candidates in the characterization of sugarbeet germplasm exhibiting resistance to various diseases will be presented. Emerging approaches for the study of sugarbeet genes involved in disease resistance also will be discussed