Strengthening Breeding for Resistance to Turcicum Leaf Blight in Sorghum: Mapping of Resistance Quantitative Trait Loci
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Sorghum cultivars grown in East and Central Africa are
susceptiple to various foliar diseases, of which turcicum leaf
blight, caused by Exerohlium turcicum, causes severe damage.
The best way to control foliar diseases is by breeding resistant
sorghum genotypes This can be best done with the help of
marker assisted breeding technology and also by deploying
multiple genes that confer either qualitative or quantitative
resistance. In this research project, we intend to identify
quantitative trait loci and molecular markers tightly linked with
resistance to Exerohilum turcicum.
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