The present disclosure provides for unique spinach plants with broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew and their progeny. Such plants may comprise an introgressed QTL associated with the broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew. In certain aspects, compositions, including distinct polymorphic molecular markers, and methods for producing, using, identifying, selecting, and the like of plants or germplasm with resistance to downy mildew are provided.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for identifying, selecting and/or producing soybean plants having tolerance to soybean stem termination.

Provided are methods and compositions, including assays, probes and primers for identifying Brassica plants that are resistant to clubroot disease. Also provided are breeding methods for introducing a clubroot resistance phenotype into Brassica plants and/or their progeny.

A method for producing a sugarcane line having improved smut resistance, the method including: a step of breeding parent plants to obtain a progeny plant, wherein at least one of said parent plants is a sugarcane plant; a step of extracting a genomic DNA of the progeny plant; a step of determining the presence or absence of a marker associated with sugarcane smut resistance in the obtained genomic DNA; a step of selecting a progeny plant having the marker associated with sugarcane smut resistance, and a step of breeding only the selected progeny plant; wherein the marker associated with sugarcane smut resistance contains any nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 144 to 151, or at least 15 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NOs: 144 to 151.

Provided herein is a genetic determinant for potato late blight resistance caused by the plant pathogen Phytophtora infestans, in potato, Solanum tuberosum L. Specifically, disclosed herein are Solanum tuberosum plants having a genetic determinant providing qualitative resistance against Phytophtora infestans which genetic determinant is located in the distal part of chromosome 12 of Solanum tuberosum between positions 60.1 and 67.2. Mbp and which genetic determinant is obtainable from a Solanum tuberosum plant with deposit No. NCIMB 43225.

The present invention relates to a method for modifying the resistance profile of a spinach plant to Peronospora farinosa f sp. spinaciae, comprising introducing a WOLF allele or a resistance-conferring part thereof into the genome of said spinach plant, or modifying an endogenous WOLF allele in the genome of said spinach plant. A WOLF allele encodes a CC-NBS-LRR protein that comprises in its amino acid sequence: the motif MAEIGYSVC at its N-terminus, and the motif KWMCLR for alpha-type WOLF proteins or HVGCVVDR for beta-type WOLF proteins. The invention relates to the WOLF alleles referred to in Table 3. The invention further provides a method for selecting a spinach plant comprising a novel WOLF gene that confers resistance to Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae in a spinach plant and a method for identifying a WOLF allele that confers resistance to one or more pathogenic races of Peronospora farinosa f sp. spinaciae in a spinach plant and to primers for use in these methods.

Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased cold tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.

Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased cold tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.

Seed treatments to enhance breeding methods are provided. Methods to increase yield by selectively applying seed treatments to breeding parental lines are provided. Variety responses to seed treatments are useful to provide an integrated, seed treatment, genetics, and traits combination to growers, chosen for a particular geographic location.

The present disclosure provides for unique spinach plants with broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew and their progeny. Such plants may comprise an introgressed QTL associated with the broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew. In certain aspects, compositions, including distinct polymorphic molecular markers, and methods for producing, using, identifying, selecting, and the like of plants or germplasm with resistance to downy mildew are provided.