Plant Germplasm Centers and Microbial Culture Collections: A User's Guide to Key Genetic Resources for Plant Pathology

Babcock, C. E.; Chen, Xianming; Crous, Pedro W.; Dugan, Frank M.; Goates, Blair J.; Green, Peter N.

doi:10.1094/pdis-91-5-0476

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“…Plant germplasm collections have been established in many countries and at most of the international crop research centres. Most of the world's preserved genetic resources are now in the public domain and, as a consequence of international agreements, are readily and freely available to breeders and researchers (Table 1) (Innes 1992;Babcock et al 2007;Ferguson 2007). There are also many pathogen resources from which virus strains can be obtained (Table 1).…”

Section: Germplasm Screening: Plant and Virus Materialsmentioning

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Genetic resistance for the sustainable control of plant virus diseases: breeding, mechanisms and durability

Gómez

Rodríguez-Hernández

Moury³

et al. 2009

Eur J Plant Pathol

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Plant viruses are important agricultural pathogens, and are responsible for a significant number of commercially relevant plant diseases. There are very few efficient control measures for viral diseases, but the use of genetic resistance appears to be the most promising strategy, often conferring effective protection without additional costs or labour during the growing season, and without damaging the environment. Sources of virus resistance have been identified for most crop species, and many resistant cultivars are already commercially available and of widespread cultivation; however, much remains to be learned about genetic resistance. This review article considers three main aspects that require intense investigation. First, we review the identification of sources of resistance and how plant breeders and pathologists have focused on aspects of the breeding process particularly relevant to viruses, such as germplasm screening and the dissection of resistance phenotypes. Second, we review how molecular mechanisms controlling resistance have been unravelled, looking at case studies where resistance mechanisms are now understood in detail for each stage of the infection cycle. Third, we turn to the durability of resistance in a global context, examining factors that influence durability and how this can be predicted. We conclude with a short discussion of the technological and scientific opportunities provided by recent advances in the field.

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Section: Germplasm Screening: Plant and Virus Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic resistance for the sustainable control of plant virus diseases: breeding, mechanisms and durability

Gómez

Rodríguez-Hernández

Moury³

et al. 2009

Eur J Plant Pathol

103

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“…Also, well documented physical specimens of these fungi can be located for study in numerous mycological herbaria (listed in Holmgren et al 1990). Living cultures (fungal germplasm) of the fungi mentioned herein can often be ordered from culture collections (see Babcock et al, 2007).…”

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Fungi, folkways and fairy tales: mushrooms & mildews in stories, remedies & rituals, from Oberon to the Internet

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2008

North Amer. Fungi

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Fungi are manifest in a multiplicity of folktales and fairy tales, and in folk remedies and rituals. They appear as foods, poisons, diseases, decorations, dyes or tinder, and even in insults, compliments, graffiti and video games. These and other impacts of fungi on folkways are here concisely reviewed under categories likely to interest professional and amateur mycologists and accessible to the lay reader. The evolution of popular perceptions of fungi is sketched from Shakespearean times through contemporary European and American cultures. Provided are specific instances of how different cultures utilized or avoided fungi, responded to fungal diseases of crops or humans, or viewed fungi in the context of popular belief, superstition or religion.

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“…Strauss 1998;McCluskey 2003;Babcock et al 2007;Gowans 2009). In the US, 'microbial collections are at risk … because the United States lacks a coordinated national system to protect, preserve and enhance these valuable resources' (APS 2009).…”

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Plant Germplasm Centers and Microbial Culture Collections: A User's Guide to Key Genetic Resources for Plant Pathology

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Genetic resistance for the sustainable control of plant virus diseases: breeding, mechanisms and durability

Genetic resistance for the sustainable control of plant virus diseases: breeding, mechanisms and durability

Fungi, folkways and fairy tales: mushrooms & mildews in stories, remedies & rituals, from Oberon to the Internet

Public germplasm collections and revolutions in biotechnology

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