Inventors:
Steven St. Martin - Columbus OH, US
Anne Dorrance - Wooster OH, US
Kara Burnham - Portland OR, US
Ron Fioritto - Wooster OH, US
David Francis - Wooster OH, US
Stuart G. Gordon - Stow OH, US
Assignee:
The Ohio State University Research Foundation - Columbus OH
International Classification:
A01H 1/04
Abstract:
The invention provides soybean plants having a novel determinant, Rps8, for resistance to. The invention also provides methods for identifying germplasms that are either heterozygous or homozygous for Rps8 using marker assisted selection. Genetic markers with known chromosomal location that are associated with the Rps8 gene are used to confirm Rps8-derived resistance in germplasms. Marker assisted selection also used when introgressing Rps8-derived soybean resistance into non-resistant soybean germplasm or less resistant soybean germplasms.