Marker-assisted Breeding for Disease Resistance in Potato

Sub-project 5 of BIOEXPLOIT aims to design durable disease resistance through marker-assisted breeding by converting existing markers for high-throughput application, developing and validating high-throughput marker technologies and pyramiding major R genes and/or quantitative trait loci into elite...

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Published in:Potato research 2009-08, Vol.52 (3), p.245-248
Main Authors: Carrasco, A, Chauvin, J. E, Trognitz, B, Pawlak, A, Rubio-Covarruvias, O, Zimnoch-Guzowska, E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Genes
Life Sciences
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Plant pathology
Plant Sciences
Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Potatoes
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Summary:Sub-project 5 of BIOEXPLOIT aims to design durable disease resistance through marker-assisted breeding by converting existing markers for high-throughput application, developing and validating high-throughput marker technologies and pyramiding major R genes and/or quantitative trait loci into elite material. Activities include (1) the fine mapping of the quantitative trait locus PiXspg which accounts for a large proportion of the variation in late blight resistance, (2) converting SNP-based markers and an AFLP marker to easy-to-use-markers, (3) testing of progenies with combined sources of late blight resistance for presence of R genes and agronomic features, (4) backcrossing new sources of resistance to S. tuberosum and molecular screening of breeding materials with marker GP94 linked with gene Rpi-phu1 conferring late blight resistance, (5) evaluating potato clones with enhanced resistance against Phytophthora infestans under field conditions of Toluca (México), and (6) developing populations and marker-assisted breeding for disease resistance.
ISSN:0014-3065
1871-4528
DOI:10.1007/s11540-009-9132-7