D. E. Hess

TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed methodologies for breeding striga-resistant sorghums, including the use of agar-gel assay to screen host genotypes in the laboratory for low production of the striga seed germination stimulant.

TL;DR: The observed entry x country interaction for ASVPC may be due to the entries' different reactions to climatic conditions and putative differences in striga virulence in Mali and Kenya.

TL;DR: A combined sorghum linkage map from two recombinant inbred populations was constructed using AFLP, SSR, RFLP and RAPD markers, in good agreement with other sorghums linkage maps, from which it deviated by a few apparent inversions, deletions, and additional distal regions.

TL;DR: Joint scaling tests showed that observed variation in each host or parasite trait consisted of additive and dominance components, suggesting possible progress could be made with appropriate selection schemes.

TL;DR: Bimodal frequency distributions supported the hypothesis of one recessive gene with a major effect for low maximal germination distance in progenies from crosses of low-stimulant lines with a high- Stimulant line, tested with striga from Mali or Niger, however, low- versus high-stimULant classes were not always clearly distinct, indicating that additional minor genes modified maximal gerulation distance in the progenie.