Patent ID: 9702015
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A01H,C12Q

Claim:
1. A method for producing a maize plant which displays increased Mal De Rio Cuarto Virus (MRCV) resistance, the method comprising: a) obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from a maize plant or a portion thereof; b) detecting in said sample a polymorphism in the marker nucleic acid PZA02272-3 (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein said polymorphism comprises a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at a position corresponding to nucleotide 9,962,933 in the B73 maize reference genome; c) crossing a maize plant comprising said polymorphism with a second maize plant; d) obtaining seeds from said cross; and e) growing at least one maize plant from said seeds; wherein said maize plant grown from said seeds comprises said polymorphism and has an increased MRCV resistance when compared with a maize plant which does not comprise said polymorphism.