date:Jul 23, 2013
oybean genome in recent years has improved the odds of finding other resistant genes. However, the Purdue team made its discovery looking for a genetic answer to another soybean problem, said Hughes, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant pathologist and adjunct professor in Purdue's Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
We were originally looking for possible resistance to Asian soybean rust, she said. Our experimental locations had high Phytophthora pressure, and we found that thes