Putative resistance gene markers associated with quantitative trait loci for fire blight resistance in Malus 'Robusta 5' accessions

BMC Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gardiner, Susan E ^a   Norelli, John L ^b   Silva, Nihal de ^c   Fazio, Gennaro ^b   Peil, Andreas ^d   Malnoy, Mickael ^e   Horner, Mary ^a   Bowatte, Deepa ^a   Carlisle, Charmaine ^a   Wiedow, Claudia ^a   Wan, Yizhen ^f   Bassett, Carole L ^b   Baldo, Angela M ^b   Celton, Jean Marc ^g   Richter, Klaus ^d   Aldwinckle, Herb S ^h   Bus, Vincent G M ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Auckland Mail Centre   (New Zealand)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^e RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^f NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; APPLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FIRE BLIGHT; FRUIT BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; MALUS; PLANT DISEASES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS ROBUSTA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84859200899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-25     Document Type: Article

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