Tolerance to maize streak virus in local Burundi highland maize

Maize plants apparently tolerant to maize streak virus were selected in farmer fields during a maize streak epidemie in the Burundi highlands in 1983-84. Progeny of these selections were tested under natural infection in the lowlands, with tolerant plants then either open or self-pollinated. Progeny...

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Main Authors: Zeigler, RS., Manirakiza, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 1986-01-01
Series:Tropicultura
Online Access:http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v4n4/138.pdf