“…An early study by Anand and Raoarelli ( 1989 ) indicated that at least one gene controls soybean resistance to HG 2.5.7. Thus far, at least 22 QTLs distributed on 10 chromosomes (1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19, and 20) have been associated with resistance to HG 2.5.7 (race 5; Yue et al, 2001a , b ; Guo et al, 2006a , b ; Wu et al, 2009 ; Vuong et al, 2010 ; Abdelmajid et al, 2014 ). Among these QTLs, genomic regions either containing or adjacent to the rhg1 locus on chromosome 18 have repeatedly been identified using different resistant soybean sources (Yue et al, 2001a ; Guo et al, 2006a , b ; Wu et al, 2009 ), suggesting the presence of highly important genes in this region that confer HG 2.5.7 resistance.…”