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Breeding for resistance is the most effective and environmentally friendly option to manage sugarcane smut disease caused by the fungus Sporisorium scitamineum. The aim of this study was to determine the smut disease reaction of some selected Saccharum germplasm in Sri Lanka, which comprised Saccharum officinarum, wild canes, imported hybrids and locally bred varieties, for the development of the parental core-collection for breeding sugarcane varieties resistant to smut disease. Four-hundred and fifty-five accessions were inoculated with smut spores by dip inoculation technique and a field trial was established, along with six standard varieties having established ratings for smut disease. Disease incidence, area under disease progress curve (AUDPC) and disease severity were quantified for each accession for both plant and first ratoon crops. The regression equations derived from average disease incidences of the standard varieties versus their established ratings were used to assign the resistance ratings to the test accessions in both plant and first ratoon crops. The results revealed that 124 accessions were highly resistant to smut in terms of disease incidence with a 0% disease severity and 0 AUDPC value in both plant and the first ratoon crops. Accordingly, 16 Saccharum spontaneum, 16 Erianthus arundinaceus, 6 Saccharum officinarum accessions and 19 local and 67 imported hybrids were selected for the core-collection for breeding for smut resistance.
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Sumedha Thushari, A.N.W., Wijesuriya, A., Wijesuriya, B.W. et al. Identification of Sugarcane Germplasm in Sri Lanka for Breeding of Varieties Resistant to Smut Disease (c.a. Sporisorium scitamineum). Sugar Tech 23, 1025–1036 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-021-00986-4
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