A total of 105 accessions were selected for pasmo resistance from the screening of more than 3,400 accessions available at the Plant Genetic Resource Canada (PGRC) collections Crosses were made between the best pasmo resistant accessions and an advanced CDC breeding line Recombinant inbred…
Flax rust is a serious disease that reached epidemic levels in North America two or three times in the previous century Since the 1970s, however, immunity to flax rust in all Canadian cultivars has depended on the L6 allele for rust resistance This reliance on a single version (allele) of this gene…
