The present invention relates to
downy mildew, and especially
downy mildew caused by the
plant pathogen Peronospora farinosa, resistant
spinach plants (
Spinacia oleracea). The present
spinach plants include a
downy mildew resistance providing genomic fragment from
Spinacia tetrandra. Specifically, the present invention relates to
spinach plants being resistant to downy
mildew, wherein the spinach
plant includes a downy
mildew resistance providing genomic fragment from
Spinacia tetrandra such as spinach plants including in their genomes one or more
nucleic acid sequences selected from the groups consisting of SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 3, SEQ ID No. 5, SEQ ID No. 7, SEQ ID No. 9, SEQ ID No. 11, SEQ ID No. 13, SEQ ID No. 15, SEQ ID No. 17, SEQ ID No. 19, SEQ ID No. 21, SEQ ID No. 23, SEQ ID No. 25, SEQ ID No. 27, SEQ ID No. 29, SEQ ID No. 31, SEQ ID No. 33 and SEQ ID No. 35.