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    • Precisely mapping a major gene conferring resistance to Hessian fly in bread wheat using genotyping-by-sequencing 

      Li, Genqiao; Wang, Ying; Chen, Ming-Shun; Edae, Erena; Poland, Jesse; Akhunov, Edward; Chao, Shiaoman; Bai, Guihua; Carver, Brett Frederick; Yan, Liuling (BioMed Central, 2015-02-15)
      Background: One of the reasons hard red winter wheat cultivar 'Duster' (PI 644016) is widely grown in the southern Great Plains is that it confers a consistently high level of resistance to biotype GP of Hessian fly (Hf). ...
    • Proteomics approach to the study of cattle tick adaptation to white tailed deer 

      Popara, Marina; Villar, Margarita; Mateos-Hernandez, Lourdes; Fernandez de Mera, Isabel G.; de la Fuente, Jose (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      Cattle ticks, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, are a serious threat to animal health and production. Some ticks feed on a single host species while others such as R. microplus infest multiple hosts. White tailed deer ...