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Sources of resistance to Fusarium head blight within Syrian durum wheat landraces
Author(s) -
Talas Firas,
Longin Friedrich,
Miedaner Thomas
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
plant breeding
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1439-0523
pISSN - 0179-9541
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2011.01867.x
Subject(s) - biology , fusarium , agronomy , introgression , resistance (ecology) , blight , cultivar , inoculation , plant disease resistance , horticulture , gene , biochemistry
With 1 figure and 1 tableAbstract Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a destructive disease of wheat all over the world. FHB causes high economic losses for durum wheat because of the lack of resistance sources. Initially, sixty‐eight Syrian landraces were tested in field conditions after inoculation to discriminate the most resistant and environmentally stable landraces. Further tests across a total of four environments revealed four landraces with a low mean FHB rating (19–25%) compared to common German durum varieties (56–60%) and an environmentally stable resistance. They are considered as promising resistance sources to FHB for introgression in the adapted durum wheat gene pool.