Rajeev K. Varshney is a Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics), Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics and Research Programme Director- Grain Legumes at  the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad (India), and an adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia.Roberto Tuberosa is a Professor in Biotechnology Applied to Plant Breeding in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy.

• Foreword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics in Crop Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance: An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice 11Yanjun Kou and Shiping WangChapter 3 The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Maize 31Tiffany Jamann, Rebecca Nelson, and Peter Balint-KurtiChapter 4 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat 45Hermann Buerstmayr, Maria Buerstmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, and Barbara SteinerChapter 5 Virus Resistance in Barley 63Frank Ordon and Dragan PerovicChapter 6 Molecular Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum 77Santosh P. Deshpande, Abdalla Mohamed, and Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.Chapter 7 Nematode Resistance in Soybean 95Tri D. Vuong, Yongqing Jiao, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. NguyenChapter 8 Marker-Assisted Selection for Biotic Stress Resistance in Peanut 125Mark 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. BertioliChapter 9 Organization of Genes Conferring Resistance to Anthracnose in Common Bean 151Juan Jos´e Ferreira, Ana Campa, and James D. KellyChapter 10 Enabling Tools for Modern Breeding of Cowpea for Biotic Stress Resistance 183Bao-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. RobertsChapter 11 Disease Resistance in Chickpea 201Teresa Mill´an, Eva Madrid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Mohamed Kharrat, and Weidong ChenChapter 12 Resistance to Late Blight in Potato 221Jadwiga ´ Sliwka and Ewa Zimnoch-GuzowskaChapter 13 Late Blight of Tomato 241Marcin Nowicki, El˙zbieta U. Kozik, and Majid R. FooladChapter 14 Marker-Assisted Selection for Disease Resistance in Lettuce 267I. SimkoChapter 15 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Cassava Mosaic Disease Resistance 291E. Okogbenin, I. Moreno, J. Tomkins, C.M. Fauquet, G. Mkamilo, and M. FregeneChapter 16 Genetics and Gene Mapping of Disease Resistance in Brassica 327Genyi Li and Peter B.E. McVettyAppendix I – Contributors 345Appendix II – Reviewers 351Index 353

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