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ALIEN CHROMOSOME ENGINEERING AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF NOVEL SOURCES OF RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT IN WHEAT

Objective

Develop wheat-Leymus compensating recombinant lines with small alien segments that still retain the FHB resistance gene for deployment and gene pyramiding for FHB disease control.

Investigators
Costa J
Institution
Kansas State University
Start date
2012
End date
2016
Funding Source
Agricultural Research Service
Project number
0500-00053-003-50G
Accession number
422780
Categories
Bacterial Pathogens
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