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Genomics of Fungal Disease Resistance

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Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes ((CPG))

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Fungal diseases are prevalent on maize, for which resistance is controlled by numerous genes where sequence variation more typically gives rise to quantitative rather than qualitative phenotypes. Genomics is facilitating advances in genetics and systems biology while opening the door for convergence between the two. As this is leading to new perspectives about the nature of functionality versus variability during pathogenesis, changes may be afoot in how maize breeders handle the challenge of crop protection.

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Acknowledgements

This work was made possible by the US NSF Plant Genome Research Program IOS-1127076 and the US Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service.

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  1. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

    Randall J. Wisser

  2. Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA, USA

    Nick Lauter

  3. Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

    Nick Lauter

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  1. Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Jeffrey Bennetzen

  2. USDA-ARS, Columbia, MO, USA

    Sherry Flint-Garcia

  3. Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Candice Hirsch

  4. Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Roberto Tuberosa

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Wisser, R.J., Lauter, N. (2018). Genomics of Fungal Disease Resistance. In: Bennetzen, J., Flint-Garcia, S., Hirsch, C., Tuberosa, R. (eds) The Maize Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97427-9_13

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