Performance of the loblolly pine fusiform rust disease resistance gene (Fr1) in a slash Xloblolly pine hybrid family
Dudley Huber; Henry Amerson
Tree Genetics and Genomes 7(3): 535-540
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1614-2942 DOI: 10.1007/s11295-010-0353-3
Accession: 064107565
Unexpectedly high levels of field susceptibility to the fusiform rust fungus observed for slash Xloblolly hybrid families in the Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program Pine Hybrid Trials led to several hypotheses concerning causation of the observed susceptibility. One of these hypotheses involved the failure of major resistance genes to appropriately function in this particular hybrid combination.