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... AAC Cameron (BW485) is a hollow-stemmed high yielding spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with good agronomic, disease, and end-use quality characteristics. AAC Cameron is best adapted to the eastern region of the Canadian prairies as represented in the Central Bread Wheat Cooperative (CBWC) Registration Tests in 2011, 2012, and 2013. AAC Cameron was significantly higher yielding than the best che ...
... AAC Jatharia (BW483) is a hollow-stemmed, high-protein, and high-yielding spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for the longer growing season areas of the Canadian Prairies. AAC Jatharia was the highest yielding line in the Central Bread Wheat Cooperative (CBWC) Registration Tests performed in the eastern prairies in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Over 2 yr of testing (2011–2012), AAC Jatharia had grain yiel ...
Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight; Puccinia graminis; Puccinia recondita; Sitodiplosis mosellana; Tilletia tritici; Triticum aestivum; Ustilago segetum var. tritici; baking quality; deoxynivalenol; leaf rust; lodging resistance; milling; prairies; protein content; seeds; smut diseases; spring wheat; stem rust; Manitoba; Saskatchewan
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... AAC Prevail (BW462) is a high-yielding spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with high protein content and is adapted to the growing conditions in the Canadian prairies. AAC Prevail yielded similar to Unity, the highest yielding check in the Central Bread Wheat Cooperative Registration tests (2010–2012). Over 3 yr of testing in Manitoba (zone 1), AAC Prevail achieved 1.5% higher yield than Unity whe ...
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; grain yield; hard red spring wheat; leaves; lodging; prairies; spring wheat; stem rust; stripe rust
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... AAC Redwater is a hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) adapted to the shorter season wheat-growing regions of the Canadian prairies. AAC Redwater was evaluated in the Parkland Wheat Cooperative Test in 2009, 2010, and 2011. AAC Redwater was significantly (P < 0.05) higher yielding than Katepwa (6.4%) and AC Splendor (7.5%) and was not significantly different in grain yield compared to CDC ...
... AAC Warman (BW1025) is a high-yielding Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat adapted to production in western Canada. AAC Warman was 3% higher yielding than Unity, the highest yielding check in the Central Bread Wheat Cooperative registration trials (2014–2016). Within the same test, AAC Warman was 11% higher yielding than Carberry, a popular CWRS wheat variety across the Canadian prairies. AAC W ...
... Leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina and stem rust by P. graminis f. sp. tritici are the most destructive diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), resulting in substantial yield losses globally. A continuous search for new sources of effective rust resistance genes is necessary to develop improved cultivars with durable resistance. This study aimed to investigate inheritance of adult-plant resi ...
germplasm; agricultural research; analysis of variance; parents; Puccinia graminis; cluster analysis; agronomic traits; spring wheat; Triticum aestivum; genes; genotype; grain yield; parentage; stem rust; Syria; Northern Africa
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... The new stem rust race Ug99 is an alarming threat to the wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production of the world for the very fact that it overcomes many of the known Sr genes including the most commonly used genes such as Sr31, Sr24, and Sr36. The wheat breeding program at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has distributed the first stem rust resistant sprin ...
... The contents of 1,4-benzoxazinone derivatives in wheat plants infected with Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Ericss. & Henn, race 32, and in uninfected controls were examined in four near-isogenic lines of different infection types: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar Prelude Sr5 (highly resistant), Sr24, Sr26 (moderately resistant), and srx (susceptible). In all infection types the contents of D ...
... Anthranilate synthase and chorismate mutase activities which control the flow of substrate from chorismate into the tryptophan pathway and into the phenylalanine/tyrosine pathway, respectively, were examined in three near isogenic wheat lines of Triticum aestivum L. (cv. Prelude Sr 5, highly resistant to stem rust infection; cv. Prelude Sr 24, moderately resistant; cv. Prelude srx, susceptible). T ...
... Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is an important crop in South Asia and epidemics of stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, can impact negatively on food security. In a pro-active assessment of the risk posed by this disease, germplasm collections received from Bangladesh and Nepal in 2011 were screened for their response to Sr31-virulent stem rust races belonging to the Ug99 group. ...
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; bacterial leaf streak; chromosomes; crossing; disease resistance; genotype; hard red spring wheat; major genes; monosomics; stem rust; temperature
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... Reactions to “black chaff,” a physiologic disease, and to race 15B of stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers.f.sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn.) were controlled by single partially dominant major genes in several crosses with Conley hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L. en. Thell.). Resistance to stem rust was associated with susceptibility to “black chaff” with apparent linkage values ranging from ...
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; breeding; breeding lines; breeding programs; chromosome mapping; crop production; disease resistance; fungi; genes; genetic markers; genetic resistance; genome-wide association study; germplasm; linear models; loci; mature plants; principal component analysis; races; screening; seedlings; single nucleotide polymorphism; spring wheat; stem rust; virulence; Canada; Ethiopia; Iran; Kenya; Middle East; United States; Yemen
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... BACKGROUND: The recently identified Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) race TTKSK (Ug99) poses a severe threat to global wheat production because of its broad virulence on several widely deployed resistance genes. Additional virulences have been detected in the Ug99 group of races, and the spread of this race group has been documented across wheat growing regions in Africa, the Middle East (Ye ...
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; air temperature; chromosome mapping; chromosomes; emerging diseases; genetic resistance; genotyping by sequencing; phenotypic variation; plant disease resistance; plant pathogenic fungi; quantitative trait loci; resistance genes; seedlings; single nucleotide polymorphism; spring wheat; stem rust
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... The identification and characterization of resistance genes should outpace the rapid emergence of new P. graminis f. sp. tritici races to mitigate stem rust damage to wheat. The objective of the current study was to identify and characterize P. graminis f. sp. tritici race resistance association signals. A total of 250 North American spring wheat lines were evaluated at the seedling stage with a t ...
... Rusts are biotrophic pathogens that attack many plant species but are particularly destructive on cereal crops. The stem rusts (caused by Puccinia graminis) have historically caused severe crop losses and continue to threaten production today. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) breeders have controlled major stem rust epidemics since the 1940s with a single durable resistance gene Rpg1. As new epidemics ...
... Salinity and sodicity problems are ubiquitous in dryland and irrigated systems, and research into possible amendments to remediate soils in these systems is needed. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of organic and inorganic amendments on spring wheat (Triticum aestivum UG99) yield and salts redistribution within the profile of a repacked saline–sodic silt loam soil (ECₑ = 12.9 dS ...
... Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, historically was one of the most destructive diseases of wheat and barley. The disease has been under effective control worldwide through the widespread use of host resistance. A number of stem rust resistance genes in wheat have been characterized for their reactions to specific races of P. graminis f. sp. tritici. Adult plant responses to ra ...
Tadele T. Kumssa; P.S. Baenziger; M.N. Rouse; M. Guttieri; I. Dweikat; G. Brown-Guedira; S. Williamson; R.A. Graybosch; S.N. Wegulo; A.J. Lorenz; J. Poland
... Wheat (Triticum spp.) stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Eriks. and E. Henn. (Pgt), re-emerged as a devastating disease of wheat because of virulent race Ug99 (TTKSK). Many bread wheat (T. aestivum L.) cultivars grown in North America are susceptible to Ug99 or its derivative races that carry additional virulence. ‘Gage’ was released in 1963 mainly for its excellent field resist ...
... In the tribe Triticeae, several Thinopyrum species have been used as sources of resistance to stem rust (caused by Puccinia graminis Pers.:Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn., abbreviated as Pgt) and other wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) diseases. To identify novel sources of resistance to Pgt race TTKSK (Ug99), we evaluated and characterized the stem rust resistance of 242 accessions belonging to ...
Sharma Jyoti Saini; Overlander Megan; Faris Justin D.; Klindworth Daryl L.; Rouse Matthew Nolan; Kang Houyang; Long Yunming; Jin Yue; Lagudah Evans S.; Xu Steven S.
... Resistance breeding is an effective approach against wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt). The synthetic hexaploid wheat line Largo (pedigree: durum wheat 'Langdon' × Aegilops tauschii PI 268210) was found to have resistance to a broad spectrum of Pgt races including the Ug99 race group. To identify and characterize the stem rust resistance (Sr) g ...
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; genetic relationships; microsatellite repeats; races; stem rust; virulence; wheat; South Africa
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... Two new races of the wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) stem rust pathogen, representing the fifth and sixth variants described within the Ug99 lineage, were detected in South Africa. Races TTKSP and PTKST (North American notation) were detected in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Except for Sr24 virulence, race TTKSP is phenotypically identical to TTKSF, a commonly detected race of Puccinia graminis f. sp. ...
... We treated seeds of ‘Little Club’ wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) and tested M. seedlings for reaction to stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn.). Mutants resistant to races 111, 15B, and 32 of stem rust were recovered. Every resistant plant in the mutant family was light green in color; whereas, every susceptible plant was normal dark gr ...
... Stem rust race Pgt-QCCJ was first found in the Great Plains of the United States in 1989, collected primarily from barley. This race became a major part of the Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici population, even though it is virulent to only a few hard red winter wheat cultivars in the central Great Plains and to barley in the northern Great Plains. It threatens barley production in the northern Gre ...
... KEY MESSAGE : Quantitative trait loci conferring adult plant resistance to Ug99 stem rust in Thatcher wheat display complementary gene action suggesting multiple quantitative trait loci are needed for effective resistance. Adult plant resistance (APR) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is desirable because this resistance can be Pgt race ...
... A mutation induced in the common wheat cultivar Canthatch (Triticum aestivum L.) results in resistance to several races of stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers.:Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn.) to which Canthatch is susceptible. Previous evidence indicated the mutation behaved as a nonsuppressing allele on chromosome arm 7DL, which permitted the expression of resistance normally inhibited by a ...
... Puccinia spp. are widespread pathogens of cereals and grasses that annually cause significant yield losses worldwide, especially in barley, oat, and wheat. Urediniospore morphology and early symptom development have limited usefulness for distinguishing Puccinia spp. Therefore, we developed real-time polymerase chain reaction assays for rapid detection of the four rust pathogen species, Puccinia g ...
... The stem rust resistance gene Sr24 is effective against most races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, including race TTKS (syn. Ug99), and is used widely in commercial wheat cultivars worldwide. In 2006, susceptible infection responses were observed on wheat lines and cultivars carrying Sr24 in a field stem rust screening nursery at Njoro, Kenya. We derived 28 single-pustule isolates from stem r ...
... The stem rust resistance gene Sr36 confers a near-immune resistance reaction to many races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and is highly effective against race TTKSK (syn. Ug99), which possesses unusually broad virulence combinations. Because this gene is widely used in United States soft winter wheat germplasm and cultivars, it has been considered to be an important source of resistance to TT ...
... Using mathematical models, we investigated how infection and sporulation characteristics of competing plant pathogens determine the density and frequency dependence of relative fitness. Two models, one for the infection stage and one for the sporulation stage of a pathogen's life cycle, describe reproductive output of pathogen strains in mixture as a function of the strains' population densities. ...
... The stem rust resistance gene Sr31, transferred from rye (Secale cereale) into wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) imparts resistance to all the virulent pathotypes of stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) found in India. Wheat genotypes including carriers and non-carriers of the Sr31 gene were analysed using arbitrary primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR). AP-PCR markers viz. SS30.2₅₈₀₍H₎ ass ...
... The wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr22 confers resistance to Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Pers. race TTKSK (also known as Ug99) that developed in Africa and is an immediate threat to world wheat production. The resistance gene is present on a chromosomal translocation derived from Triticum boeoticum Boiss., which has a genome that is partially homologous to the A genome of T. aestivum L. Sr2 ...
... The stem rust fungus, particularly race TTKSK (Ug99), poses a serious threat to world wheat production. Gene Sr42 or SrCad (which could be the same gene or an allele of Sr42) is effective against race TTKSK. However, known genetic markers for Sr42 are mostly SSR markers which are generally labor intensive to use. In this study, we mapped a race TTKSK resistance gene derived from PI 595667 at the s ...
... The wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr36, derived from Triticum timopheevi, confers a high level of resistance against a new race (TTKS, or commonly known as Ug99) and many other races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Because Sr36-virulent races exist, breeding for durable resistance would require pyramiding Sr36 with other genes, a process that can be facilitated by DNA markers. The aim of thi ...
... A glycopeptide elicitor prepared from germ tubes of the rust fungus Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Erikss. & Henn (Pgt),as well as chitin oligosaccharides, chitosan, and methyl jasmonate (MJ) stimulated lipoxygenase (LOX) activity (E.C. 1.13.11.12) in wheat (Triticum aestivum) leaves. Immunoblot analysis using anti-LOX antibodies revealed the induction of 92- and 103-kD LOX species after P ...
... Zhong 5 is a partial amphiploid (2n = 56) between Triticum aestivum 12n = 42) and Thinopyrum intermedium (2n = 42) carrying all the chromosomes of wheat and seven pairs of chromosomes from Th. intermedium. Following further backcrossing to wheat, six independent stable 2n = 44 lines were obtained representing 4 disomic chromosome addition lines. One chromosome confers barley yellow dwarf virus (BY ...
Puccinia graminis; Puccinia striiformis f. tritici; Triticum aestivum; data collection; inoculum; models; plant pathogens; population dynamics; spores; wheat; Oregon
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... AIM: Understanding how spatial scale of study affects observed dispersal patterns can provide insights to spatiotemporal population dynamics, particularly in systems with significant long‐distance dispersal (LDD). We aimed to investigate the dispersal gradients of two rusts of wheat with spores of similar size, mass and shape, over multiple spatial scales. We hypothesized that a single dispersal k ...
... Stem rust disease caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici significantly reduces the yield and quality of wheat grain. A total of 92 entries of new Siberian agricultural wheat germplasm were studied with an integrated approach: phenotyping in the field and seedling stage reactions and using molecular markers to identify stem rust resistance genes. Among the tested ...
... The recent outbreak of a new wheat stem rust race capable of parasitizing many commercial wheat cultivars highlights the need for durable disease resistance in crop plants. More advanced breeding approaches using quantitative disease resistance genes and resistance gene pyramids are being used to combat wheat stem rust and other diseases, though widespread adoption of these breeding methodologies ...
... It was established in greenhouse experiments that infection with powdery moldew (Erysiphe graminis DC. f. sp. tritici Em. Marchal) and brown rust (Puccinia triticana Erikss. & Henn.) of three wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars (Mironovskaya 808, Polesskay 70, and Kiyanka) grown from seeds, collected in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, was 1.5–2.0 times higher than of plants grown from control see ...
... Several biotic and abiotic clicitors of the hypersensitive reaction in wheat leaves are described. The elicitors induce enhanced activity of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase with subsequent lignification, visible as a yellow autofluorescence. The deposited material stains positively with phloroglucinol. DEAE-dextran, epoxystearic acid and chitosan are strong elicitors, while the glucans tested have no ...
Singh Ravi P.; Hodson David P.; Jin Yue; Lagudah Evans S.; Ayliffe Michael A.; Bhavani Sridhar; Rouse Matthew N.; Pretorius Zacharias A.; Szabo Les J.; Huerta-Espino Julio; Basnet Bhoja R.; Lan Caixia; Hovmøller Mogens S.
Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; chemical control; disease outbreaks; evolution; food security; genes; germplasm; mature plants; monitoring; new variety; plant pathogenic fungi; quantitative trait loci; races; research and development; stem rust; virulence; wheat; Egypt; Ethiopia; Iran; Kenya; Uganda; Yemen
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... Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to a large number of resistance genes found in current widely grown wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties and germplasm, leading to its potential for rapid spread and evolution. Since its initial detection, variants of the ...
... KEY MESSAGE: Complete new wheat-rye disomic, telosomic addition lines and various chromosomal aberrations were developed and characterized by molecular cytogenetic method as novel chromosome engineering materials. A new stem rust resistance (Ug99) gene was located on 3RL. Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a devastating fungal disease worldwide. A recently emerge ...