Breeding poplars with durable resistance to Melampsora larici-populina leaf rust: a multidisciplinary approach to understand and delay pathogen adaptation

V. Jorge Dowkiw; M. Villar; E. Voisin; V. Guérin; P. Faivre-Rampant; A. Bresson; F. Bitton; S. Duplessis; P. Frey; B. Petre; C. Guinet; C. Xhaard; B. Fabre; F. Halkett; C. Plomion; C. Lalanne; C. Bastien

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Breeding poplars with durable resistance to Melampsora larici-populina leaf rust: a multidisciplinary approach to understand and delay pathogen adaptation

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Authors:

V. Jorge Dowkiw, M. Villar, E. Voisin, V. Guérin, P. Faivre-Rampant, A. Bresson, F. Bitton, S. Duplessis, P. Frey, B. Petre, C. Guinet, C. Xhaard, B. Fabre, F. Halkett, C. Plomion, C. Lalanne, C. Bastien

Year:

2012

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Sniezko, Richard A.; Yanchuk, Alvin D.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M.; Alexander, Janice M.; Frankel, Susan J., tech. coords. Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on the genetics of host-parasite interactions in forestry: Disease and insect resistance in forest trees. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-240. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. pp. 31-38

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Abstract

During the last decades, European poplar breeders learned the hard way that Melampsora larici-populina (commonly abbreviated as Mlp…) has an impressive adaptive potential (McDonald and Linde 2002). This fungal pathogen defeated all the deployed cultivars carrying qualitative (i.e., complete) resistances inherited from the American eastern black cottonwood Populus deltoides Bartram ex Marsh. in less time than needed to grow a poplar tree

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on the genetics of host-parasite interactions in forestry: Disease and insect resistance in forest trees

Citation

Dowkiw, V. Jorge; Villar, M.; Voisin, E.; Guérin, V.; Faivre-Rampant, P.; Bresson, A.; Bitton, F.; Duplessis, S.; Frey, P.; Petre, B.; Guinet, C.; Xhaard, C.; Fabre, B.; Halkett, F.; Plomion, C.; Lalanne, C.; Bastien, C. 2012. Breeding poplars with durable resistance to Melampsora larici-populina leaf rust: a multidisciplinary approach to understand and delay pathogen adaptation. In: Sniezko, Richard A.; Yanchuk, Alvin D.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M.; Alexander, Janice M.; Frankel, Susan J., tech. coords. Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on the genetics of host-parasite interactions in forestry: Disease and insect resistance in forest trees. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-240. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. pp. 31-38.