Genetic Dissection of Disease Resistance to the Blue Mold Pathogen, Peronospora tabacina, in Tobacco
Abstract
Tobacco blue mold, caused by the obligately biotrophic oomycete pathogen Peronospora tabacina D.B. Adam, is a major foliar disease that results in significant losses in tobacco-growing areas. Natural resistance to P. tabacina has not been identified in any variety of common tobacco. Complete resistance, conferred by RBM1, was found in N. debneyi and was transferred into cultivated tobacco by crossing. In the present study, we characterized the RBM1-mediated resistance to blue mold in tobacco and show that the hypersensitive response (HR) plays an important role in the host defense reactions. Genetic mapping indicated that the disease resistance gene locus resides on chromosome 7. The genetic markers linked to this gene and the genetic map we generated will not only benefit tobacco breeders for variety improvement but will also facilitate the positional cloning of RBM1 for biologists.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2015
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy5040555
Repository Citation
Wu, Xia; Li, Dandan; Bao, Yinguang; Zaitlin, David; Miller, Robert D.; and Yang, Shengming, "Genetic Dissection of Disease Resistance to the Blue Mold Pathogen, Peronospora tabacina, in Tobacco" (2015). Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications. 61.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_facpub/61
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Agronomy, v. 5, no. 4, p. 555-568.
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