date:Jul 23, 2013
e genes did very well against that disease. That was our first clue that they might have good resistance to Phytophthora sojae.
During the three-year study, researchers developed molecular markers, or identifying tags, to expedite the transfer of the resistant genes to soybean cultivars in a process known as marker-assisted selection.
There are about 46,000 predicted gene models in what we call the reference soybean genome, Ma said. These markers allow rapid pyramiding of multiple resistant ge