@article{Anais:256804,
      recid = {256804},
      author = {Anais, Guy and Darasse, Arnelle and Prior, Philippe},
      title = {Breeding Anthuriums (Anthuriums andreanum L.) for  Resistance to Bacterial Blight Caused by Xanthomonas  campestries pv dieffenbachiae},
      address = {1998-07-12},
      number = {1884-2017-671},
      pages = {6},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {Ornamentals are of growing importance in the crop  diversification policy of most Caribbean countries. Cut  flowers, including anthuriums, alpinias and helicopnias are  considered to have considerable potential as an export  commodity. In the French Antilles, the development  ofornamental production in the early seventies was based on  anthuriums. This flower was leading the export market until  1983 whenthe accidental introduction of bacterial blight  tXanthomonascompestris pv diffenbochiae) practically  destroyed thewhole crop. After developing preventative  measures to control the disease, a breeding progranune was  initiated for resistance to the pathogen. In 1995.  resistance in one anthurium clone growing in a shade-house  was identified. The high level of this resistance was  confirmed by inoculating the plants with a baeterium  strain, representative ofthe local population of the  pathogen. The resistant clone can easily be erossed with  the commercial cultivars, so that it will be possible to  breed varieties which meet the demands of both the export  and local markets.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/256804},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.256804},
}