%A S Sivaramakrishnan %A B C Meyers %A K Shen %A D O Lavelle %A R W Michelmore %I International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Andhra Pradesh, India %V 6 %L icrisat2993 %J International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter %P 33-36 %D 1999 %T Isolation of Putative Disease Resistance Gene Clones from Chickpea and Pigeonpea %X Nucleotide binding sites conferring disease resistance were cloned from chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan). The majority of amplified resistance gene candidates showed high homology to N (tobacco) and L6 (flax) resistance genes.