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  1. CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, 2021, Online, AP 07

    Nematodes: first steps toward the identification of markers related to Rk2 resistance gene against M. arenaria and M. javanica

    JULIO E.(1); COTUCHEAU J.(1); VOLPATTI R.(1); TRIVILIN A.P.(2); DECORPS C.(1); ENDER M.(2); DORLHAC DE BORNE F.(1)
    (1) Imperial Brands, Leaf Research, Bergerac, France; (2) Universal Leaf Tabacos Ltda, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brazil
    Plant parasitic nematodes belonging to the genus Meloidogyne are the most economically harmful nematodes worldwide with the widest host range. In the seventies, commercial tobacco cultivars with the Rk1 gene, which imparts resistance to Meloidogyne...
  2. CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Rovinj, 2009, AP 05

    Breeding Burley tobacco lines with resistance to root decay caused by Pythium spp

    ENDER M.; DA ROCHA A.B.; DE SOUZA M.V.; WILLANI, S.A.
    Universal Leaf Tabacos Ltda, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS-Brazil.
    Diseases of tobacco caused by Pythium spp. can start as damping-off of seedlings, evolve as root and stem rot of young plants, and finally cause root decay of field plants. Root and stem rot of tobacco reduces stands more than 20% in some fields, and...