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Legume breeding for rust resistance: lessons to learn from the model Medicago truncatula

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Rusts are major biotic constraints of legumes worldwide. Breeding for rust resistance is regarded as the most cost efficient method for rust control. However, in contrast to common bean for which complete monogenic resistance exists and is efficiently used, most of the rust resistance reactions described so far in cool season food legumes are incomplete and of complex inheritance. Incomplete resistance has been described in faba bean, pea, chickpea and lentil and several of their associated QTLs have been mapped. However, the relatively large distance between the QTLs and their associated molecular markers hampers their efficient use for marker assisted selection. Their large genome size drastically hampers the development of genomic resource and limits the saturation of their genetic maps. The use of model plants such as the model legume Medicago truncatula may circumvent this drawback. The important genetic and genomic resources and tools available for this model legume can considerably speed up the discovery and validation of new genes and QTLs in resistance to legume pathogens. Here, the potential of M. truncatula as a model to study rust resistance in legumes, and to transfer rust resistance genes to cool season grain legumes is reviewed.

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Rubiales, D., Castillejo, M.A., Madrid, E. et al. Legume breeding for rust resistance: lessons to learn from the model Medicago truncatula . Euphytica 180, 89–98 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-011-0367-4

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