R alstonia solanacearum is a soil‐borne bacterium causing the widespread disease known
as bacterial wilt. R alstonia solanacearum is also the causal agent of M oko disease of …

The cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

Plant-pathogenic Ralstonia spp. colonize plant xylem and cause wilt diseases on a broad
range of host plants. To identify genes that promote growth of diverse Ralstonia strains in …

The identification of two Arabidopsis thaliana genes involved in determining recessive
resistance to several strains of the causal agent of bacterial wilt, Ralstonia solanacearum, is …

The necessity to develop potato and tomato crops that possess durable resistance against
the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans is increasing as more virulent, crop …

The cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., is the second most consumed vegetable
crop after potato and unquestionably the most popular garden crop in the world. There are …

Bacterial wilt, caused by strains belonging to the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex,
inflicts severe economic losses in many crops worldwide. Host resistance remains the most …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Genomic positions of phenotypically defined disease resistance genes (R genes) and R
gene homologues were analyzed in three solanaceous crop genera, Lycopersicon (tomato) …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …