Achievements and Challenges in Legume Breeding for Pest and Disease Resistance

Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds, anthracnoses, damping-off, root rots, collar rots, vascular wilts and white molds. Parasitic weeds, viruses, bacteria, nematod...

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Main Authors: Rubiales, D., Fondevilla, S., Chen, W., Gentzbittel, L., Higgins, T., Castillejo, M., Singh, Karambir, Rispail, N.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40035