Genome-Wide Association Studies for Striga asiatica Resistance in Tropical Maize.

ABSTRACT: Striga asiatica L. is a parasitic weed in cereal crops including maize leading to tremendous yield losses up to 100% under severe infestation. The available S. asiatica control methods include cultural control options such as uprooting and burning the Striga plants before they flower, field sanitation, crop rotation, intercropping, organic matter usage, improved fallows, and application of herbicides. Resource limitation among smallholder farmers renders almost all of the control methods impossible. Development and use of Striga resistant genotypes are seen as the most feasible management option. Marker identification formulates tools that are faster, cheaper, and easier to utilise in breeding for S. asiatica resistance which has low heritability. The obj

SUBMITTER: Pfunye A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8238628 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature