Identification and validation of QTLs linked to fire blight resistance in Malus and their applicability in marker-assisted selection

Autor: D. Drouet, Brion Duffy, Markus Kellerhals, Muhammad Awais Khan, Andrea Patocchi, Cesare Gessler, C.E. Durel
Přispěvatelé: ProdInra, Migration, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Unité mixte de recherche génétique et horticulture Genhort, Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National d'Horticulture, Station Fédérale de Recherche Agronomique de Changins, Vilmorin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Acta Horticulturae
12. Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
12. Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics, Sep 2007, Zaragoza, Spain
Popis: International audience; Fire blight, a devastating disease of apple, pear, and many Rosaceae species worldwide is caused by enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora. At present, disease control mainly relies on antibiotics, prevention, and eradication-based strategies. Prevention and eradication is expensive, while resistance development for antibiotics can reduce their efficacy over time. Apple varieties do, however, exhibit a wide range of relative tolerance to fire blight. As part of our long-term strategy to design sustainable fire blight controls, we have initiated a breeding project to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and markers linked to them. F1 segregating progeny plants of 'Fiesta' * 'Discovery' were inoculated with a strain of Erwinia amylovora and studied under quarantine conditions to identify QTLs (Quantitative Trait Loci) for fire blight resistance. Progress of disease was measured at different time intervals as percent shoot lesion length (PLL) and used for QTL analysis. One significant QTL (P
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