The fusarium wilt resistance locus Fom-2 of melon contains a single resistance gene with complex features

Plant Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 283-297

  Joobeur, Tarek ^a   King, Joseph J ^b   Nolin, Shelly J ^a   Thomas, Claude E ^c   Dean, Ralph A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seminis Vegetable Seeds   (United States)

^c USDA ARS US Vegetable Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC end sequence; Complex R locus; Fine mapping; Fom 2; Melon; R gene evolution

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CLONING; CULTIVATION; FUNGI; GENES; PATHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

GENE CONVERSION; GENE RESISTANCE; POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANTALOUPE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FUSARIUM; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CUCUMIS MELO; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUSARIUM; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

CLONES; CULTIVATION; DISEASES; FUNGI; GENES; PATHOGENS; PROTEINS; WILTING;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCURBITACEAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; MELONIS;

EID: 3843074134     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02134.x     Document Type: Article

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