Quantitative resistance has gained interest in plant breeding for pathogen control in low-
input cropping systems. Although quantitative resistance frequently has only a partial effect …

Background PCR allelic discrimination technologies have broad applications in the
detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genetics and genomics. The use of …

Sugar beet is a recent crop developed solely for the extraction of the sweetener, sucrose.
Breeding and improvement of Beta vulgaris for sugar has a rich historical record. Sugar beet …

The major resistance gene BvCR4 recently bred into sugar beet hybrids provides a high
level of resistance to Cercospora leaf spot caused by the fungal pathogen Cercospora …

Summary Nucleotide‐binding (NB‐ARC), leucine‐rich‐repeat genes (NLR s) account for
60.8% of resistance (R) genes molecularly characterized from plants. NLR s exist as large …

Beetroot, table beet, red beet or garden beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva
Alefeld) is a cross-pollinated crop that belongs to the family Chenopodiaceae. It is one of the …

Late blight, caused by oomycetes Phytophthora infestans is one of the most challenging
fungal diseases to manage in tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Toward managing …

Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or
more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes) …

Sugar beet productivity is highly constrained by the root-knot nematode (RKN) Meloidogyne
incognita. Eight sugar beet genotypes were screened under greenhouse conditions for their …

The miniaturization of reactions by designing nanoliter-scale PCR platforms, as Taqman®
OpenArray®, Dynamic Array™, or SmartChip, has been a big step forward in real-time PCR …