Preface ix

Chapter 1 Translational Genomics in Crop Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance: An Introduction 1
Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto Tuberosa

Chapter 2 Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice 11
Yanjun Kou and Shiping Wang

Chapter 3 The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Maize 31
Tiffany Jamann, Rebecca Nelson, and Peter Balint-Kurti

Chapter 4 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat 45
Hermann Buerstmayr, Maria Buerstmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, and Barbara Steiner

Chapter 5 Virus Resistance in Barley 63
Frank Ordon and Dragan Perovic

Chapter 6 Molecular Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum 77
Santosh P. Deshpande, Abdalla Mohamed, and Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.

Chapter 7 Nematode Resistance in Soybean 95
Tri D. Vuong, Yongqing Jiao, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. Nguyen

Chapter 8 Marker-Assisted Selection for Biotic Stress Resistance in Peanut 125
Mark D. Burow, Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Charles E. Simpson, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Ye Chu, Nicholas N. Denwar, Jennifer Chagoya, James L. Starr, M´arcio C. Moretzsohn, Manish K. Pandey, Rajeev K.Varshney, C. Corley Holbrook, and David J. Bertioli

Chapter 9 Organization of Genes Conferring Resistance to Anthracnose in Common Bean 151
Juan Jos´e Ferreira, Ana Campa, and James D. Kelly

Chapter 10 Enabling Tools for Modern Breeding of Cowpea for Biotic Stress Resistance 183
Bao-Lam Huynh, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Timothy J. Close, Ndiaga Ciss´e, Issa Drabo, Ousmane Boukar, Mitchell R. Lucas, Steve Wanamaker, Marti Pottorff, and Philip A. Roberts

Chapter 11 Disease Resistance in Chickpea 201
Teresa Mill´an, Eva Madrid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Mohamed Kharrat, and Weidong Chen

Chapter 12 Resistance to Late Blight in Potato 221
Jadwiga ´ Sliwka and Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska

Chapter 13 Late Blight of Tomato 241
Marcin Nowicki, El˙zbieta U. Kozik, and Majid R. Foolad

Chapter 14 Marker-Assisted Selection for Disease Resistance in Lettuce 267
I. Simko

Chapter 15 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Cassava Mosaic Disease Resistance 291
E. Okogbenin, I. Moreno, J. Tomkins, C.M. Fauquet, G. Mkamilo, and M. Fregene

Chapter 16 Genetics and Gene Mapping of Disease Resistance in Brassica 327
Genyi Li and Peter B.E. McVetty

Appendix I – Contributors 345

Appendix II – Reviewers 351

Index 353