The major resistance gene cluster in lettuce is highly duplicated and spans several megabases

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1817-1832

  Meyers, Blake C ^a,b   Chin, Doris B ^a   Shen, Katherine A ^a   Sivaramakrishnan, Subramoniam ^a,c   Lavelle, Dean O ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a,d   Michelmore, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLONE; CROSSING OVER; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LETTUCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROPOSON;

BREMIA LACTUCAE;

EID: 0032206007     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.11.1817     Document Type: Article

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