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Project Goal: To contribute to increasing food security and
income for rural poor in Eastern, Central and Southern
Africa through genetic improvement of common bean,
Africa’s most important grain legume crop
Project Purpose:
To use marker assisted selection breeding to pyramid
root rot and angular leaf spot resistance genes in well
adapted market class populations of bush and climbing beans,
and making these products available to national researchers
through participatory breeding initiatives662068
Project
Objectives
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Define
the composition and distribution of Pythium species
causing root rots of common bean in Uganda, Rwanda and
Kenya
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Develop
standardized molecular markers for defining and
characterizing the angular leaf spot pathogen, Phaeoisariopsis
griseola
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Characterize
the nature and inheritance of angular leaf spot
resistance in common bean and develop molecular markers
for marker assisted selection breeding
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Combine
and pyramid angular leaf spot, Pythium root rot and
Fusarium wilt resistance into bean varieties that are
preferred in the region (market class beans).
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Disseminate
the results to scientists from participating countries
and bean researchers through a series of workshops and
student training.
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