Multiple Disease Resistance in Plants

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 229-252

  Wiesner Hanks, Tyr ^a   Nelson, Rebecca ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Crop improvement; Genome wide association analysis; Linkage analysis; Pleiotropy; QTL

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84981357275     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080615-100037     Document Type: Review

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