Development of varieties with multiple disease resistances is always an important goal for plant breeders. Dr. Yiqun Weng’s Lab at the Vegetable Crops Research Unit in USDA-ARS, Madison, Wisconsin identified the STAYGREEN gene that is responsible for the PI 197087-derived triple-disease resistances.
For further reading:
- STAYGREEN, STAY HEALTHY: a loss-of-susceptibility mutation in the STAYGREEN gene provides durable, broad-spectrum disease resistances for over 50 years of US cucumber production
by: Yuhui Wang, Junyi Tan, Zhiming Wu, Kyle VandenLangenberg, Todd C. Wehner, Changlong Wen, Xiangyang Zheng, Ken Owens, Alyson Thornton, Hailey H. Bang, Eric Hoeft, Peter A. G. Kraan, Jos Suelmann, Junsong Pan, and Yiqun Weng
First published: 19 July 2018
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15353
