Identification of candidate genes involved in Witches' broom disease resistance in a segregating mapping population of Theobroma cacao L. in Brazil

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Royaert, Stefan ^a   Jansen, Johannes ^b   da Silva, Daniela Viana ^c   de Jesus Branco, Samuel Martins ^c   Livingstone, Donald S ^d   Mustiga, Guiliana ^d   Marelli, Jean Philippe ^a   Araújo, Ioná Santos ^e   Corrêa, Ronan Xavier ^c   Motamayor, Juan Carlos ^d  

^a Mars Center for Cocoa Science   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^d Mars Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO SEMI ÁRIDO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genetic linkage map; Marker trait associations; SNP; Theobroma cacao L; Witches' broom disease

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CACAO; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 9; FUNGAL WITCHES BROOM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT DISEASE;

ALLELES; BRAZIL; CACAO; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84957688347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2415-x     Document Type: Article

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