Identification of a QTL region for ashy stem blight resistance using genome-wide association and linage analysis in common bean recombinant inbred lines derived from BAT 477 and NY6020-4.

Ashy stem blight (ASB), caused by the fungus (Tassi) Goidanich is an important disease of the common bean ( L.). It is important to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for ASB resistance and introgress into susceptible cultivars of the common bean.