Abstract
Stripe rust caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) may decrease wheat yield significantly in severe outbreaks. The most cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach to reduce yield losses due to rust diseases is deployment of effective resistant genes in wheat cultivars. The causal agents evolve and may break existing resistant sources as well. Therefore, long-term conventional breeding strategies and the ongoing evolution of pathogen populations in the region would put the success of breeding programmes at risk so that there is always a need for speeding up the process of germplasm enhancement through production of doubled-haploid breeding materials. In this study, we aimed at introgression of stripe rust resistance trait from three genotypes (Flanders, Martonvasar-17 (MV17) and Bersee) into a widely adapted cultivar "Ghods". Positively selected F2BC2 progenies of three backcrossing schemas, i.e. (i) Flanders/3*Ghods; (ii) Ghods*3/MV17; and (iii) Hybride-de-bersee/3*Ghods, were used to produce three small-size doubled-haploid populations via wheat × Maize pollination methodology. The doubled-haploid populations were examined against two predominantly isolates of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) i.e. 6E134A+ and 6E2A+Yr27+ and the screening revealed that 44 and 52 of the progenies are resistant to the above-mentioned isolates, respectively. Field data have shown that the stripe rust resistance doubled-haploid germplasm are comparable to local check cultivars in yield and earliness.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1675-1685 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 14 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are thankful for financial assistance of the Seed and Plant Improvement Institute made available to the Doubled-Haploid Technology Unit and Cereals Pathology Unit at the Cereals Research Department.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- backcross-breeding
- doubled-haploid breeding
- stripe rust
- wheat