The objectives of this study were to identify microsatellite markers linked to resistance gene of resistance to Puccinia polysora and to estimate the phenotypic effect of these genes on two monocyclic variables lesion, number and length. Two inbreed lines with different degrees of resistance (Z-95 and Z-93), the hybrid (Z-95 X Z-93) and F2 plants derived by selfing this hybrid were phenotyped for disease resistance, in two field trials and genotyped for 142 microsatellite markers using bulked segregant analysis (BSA). The molecular markers putatively linked to the disease resistance genes identified by this method were used to genotype 165 segregant individuals and to confirm linkage. Two markers, Phi 65 and Phi 28, both located on chromosome nine, were significantly associated (p<0.000001 and p<0.000078) with a QRL (quantitative resistance loci) to P. polysora. The association explained 12.9 and 5.10% of the phenotypic variance in resistance for Phi 65 and Phi 28, respectively. In a third trial performed in the greenhouse, 94 plants were inoculated with a uredospore suspension and evaluated 15 days after inoculation for the total number of lesions and the length of ten lesions. These plants were genotyped with Phi 65 and Phi 28. Only Phi 65 showed a significant association with lesions number (p<0.000032). No marker showed significant association with lesion length. It is suggested that the QRL identified in the field trials is the same identified in the greenhouse experiment, since they are linked to the same marker.
