The specific objectives of this effort are to: 1) Identify charcoal rot resistant germplasm; 2) Determine tolerance of the identified soybean lines to phaseolinone. Promising soybean lines will be challenged with purified phaseolinone; a toxin produced by the pathogen and believed to be one of the important factors leading to disease development. This will allow us to determine whether the "resistance" of the elite lines is because of their tolerance to the toxin or due to some other mechanisms. This may ultimately lead to the identification of distinct sources of resistance to charcoal rot; and 3) Determine the effect of other diseases on charcoal rot expression, microplot and greenhouse...
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