Relationship of Dominant Genes in Corn for Chlorotic Lesion Resistance to Helminthosporium turcicum. A. L. Hooker, Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant Genetics, Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801. Yean-Kai Tsung, Research Assistant, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801. Plant Dis. 64:387-388. Copyright 1980 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-64-387.

Dominant genes for chlorotic lesion resistance to Helminthosporium turcicum in each of 27 inbred lines of corn are at or closely linked to the Ht locus.

Keyword(s): gene Ht, northern leaf blight, Zea mays L.