Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Pea (Pisum sativum L.) was the original model organism used in Mendel's discovery (1866)
of the laws of inheritance, making it the foundation of modern plant genetics. However …

Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold great potential for plant breeding as it promises
to expedite the time taken to produce crop varieties with desirable characters. With the use …

Mycogen Plant Sciences, Madison Laboratories, 5649 East Buckeye Road, Madison, WI
53716 in a bewildering array of new terms. For scientists who have a peripheral interest in …

In recent years, molecular marker technology in higher plants has witnessed a shift from the
so-called random DNA markers (RDMs), developed in the past arbitrarily from genomic DNA …

Loss‐of‐function alleles of plant‐specific MLO (Mildew Resistance Locus O) genes confer
broad‐spectrum powdery mildew resistance in monocot (barley) and dicot (Arabidopsis …

Map** and tagging of agriculturally important genes have been greatly facilitated by an
array of molecular markers in crop plants. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is gaining …

Summary 'Compatibility'describes the complementary relationship between a plant species
and an adapted pathogen species that underlies susceptibility and which ultimately results …

The powdery mildew disease affects several crop species and is also one of the major
threats for pea (Pisum sativum L.) cultivation all over the world. The recessive gene er1, first …

Two 24-mer SCAR primers (SW13) were developed from a previously identified 10-mer
RAPD primer (OW13690) linked to the I gene, which conditions resistance to bean common …