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Genetics of nonsenescence and charcoal rot resistance in sorghum

Overview of attention for article published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, January 1993
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Title
Genetics of nonsenescence and charcoal rot resistance in sorghum
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Theoretical and Applied Genetics, January 1993
DOI 10.1007/bf00220925
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A. Tenkouano, F. R. Miller, R. A. Frederiksen, D. T. Rosenow

Abstract

Nonsenescence is a delayed leaf and plant death resistance mechanism in sorghum that circumvents the detrimental effects of reduced soil moisture combined with high temperatures during post-anthesis growth. This drought-tolerance mechanism is often equated with charcoal rot resistance, a widespread root and stalk disease of great destructive potential. Therefore, the inheritance of charcoal rot resistance was investigated directly, by exposure of sorghum to Macrophomina phaseolina, the causal organism, and indirectly, by determination of the inheritance of nonsenescence. Sorghum families derived from diallel crosses between two nonsenescent, resistant inbreds (B35, SC599-11E) and two senescent, susceptible inbreds (BTx378, BTx623) were evaluated in 1989 at College Station and at Lubbock, Texas, under controlled and field conditions. We determined that nonsenescence was regulated by dominant and recessive epistatic interactions between two nonsenescence-inducing loci and a third locus with modifying effects. The same conclusion was reached for charcoal rot resistance. The presence of different genetic mechanisms within SC599-11E for nonsenescence and charcoal rot resistance verifies that these two forms of resistance are not different manifestations of a single trait, i.e., they are not to be equated with each other. We conclude that nonsenescence alone cannot account for, and should not be used as the sole breeding criterion for, resistance to charcoal rot in sorghum.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 17%
Researcher 3 13%
Student > Master 3 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 5 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 74%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Engineering 1 4%
Unknown 3 13%
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