Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology

International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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  Recent Developments in Genomic Selection for Minor Gene Quantitative Disease Resistance Plant Breeding
  Author(s): Dagnachew Bekele*, Kassahun Tesfaye and Asnake Fikre
  
  To speed up the development of improved crop varieties, genomics assisted plant breeding is becoming an important tool. With traditional breeding and marker assisted selection, there have been several achievements in breeding for diseases resistance. Most research for disease resistance has been focused on major disease resistance genes which are highly effective although very vulnerable to breakdown with rapid changes in pathogenic races. In contrast, breeding for minor gene quantitative resistance can produce more durable plant varieties although it is very slow and challenging breeding. As the genetic architecture of the plant disease resistance shifts from single major R genes to many minor quantitative genes, the most appropriate approach for molecular plant breeding is genomic selection (GS) than marker assisted selection or conventional breeding. With the advent of new genomic .. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7471.10.478

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