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Quantitatively inherited resistance to the black shank pathogen (Phytophthora parasitica var. ‘nicotianae’) was expressed among callus tissue cultures of tobacco (Nicotiana). Tissue cultures of genotypes known to posses polygenic mechanisms for black shank resistance expressed that resistance in vitro when challenged by the viable pathogen. Callus of a susceptible cultivar was readily parasitized in culture. Furthermore, single gene resistance to the common pathogen race was also shown to operate in vitro. Nongenetic factors examined did not contribute significantly to the observed differences. Disease expression in vitro appeared to be highly correlated with its expression at the whole plant level.
Screening for quantitative disease resistance can be complicated at the whole plant level by variable hostpathogen reactions and by significant genotype × environment interactions. Since quantitatively inherited mechanisms of black shank resistance are expressed in tobacco callus cultures, an in vitro host-pathogen system may be useful in screening tobacco lines for black shank resistance.
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Communicated by G. Wenzel
The research reported in this paper (No. 82-3-6) is in connection with a project of the Kentucky Agr. Exp. Stn., and the paper is published with the approval of the director
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Deaton, W.R., Keyes, G.J. & Collins, G.B. Expressed resistance to black shank among tobacco callus cultures. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 63, 65–70 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00303493
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