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Characterization of exotic germplasm lines for resistance to wheat rusts and spot blotch

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Breeding resistant varieties of wheat is a continuous process and empirical disease control depends on deployment of diverse sources of genetic resistance to the deadly rusts. A total of 166 exotic wheat germplasm accessions were evaluated for resistance to wheat rusts having some component of resistance to either any of the three rusts and spot blotch. The data for adult plant resistance (APR) on leaf and stem rusts, was recorded at Wellington while yellow rust epiphytotic was artificially created at Karnal for identification of resistant lines. Based on APR data 85, 96 and 16 accessions were found completely resistant to leaf, stem and stripe rusts respectively. Based on the seedling resistance data against different pathotypes (10 each for leaf and stripe and 5 for stem rust) of each rust, nine, fifteen and five accessions were found highly resistant respectively. Based on the multi-environment adult plant resistance data and race specific seedling data, we were able to identify 28, accessions highly resistant to either one or two rusts. For spot blotch the evaluation was done at hotspot locations Wadura and Coochbehar and 26 accessions were found to be highly resistant against this disease. The lines so identified in this study are being used in the hybridization programs to enhance the levels of resistance.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the support received from our institute during the conduct of this research. We also acknowledge ICARDA, Morocco for supply of the germplasm and ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi for facilitating the import of the lines. There is no conflict of interest among the authors involved in this research.

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  1. ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, 132 001, India

    Satish Kumar, Garima Singroha, C. N. Mishra, Ravish Chatrath & G. P. Singh

  2. ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Regional Station, Flowerdale, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, 171 002, India

    S. C. Bhardwaj & O. P. Gangwar

  3. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110 012, India

    M. S. Saharan

  4. MARES, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Gurez, Bandipora, Jammu & Kashmir, 193 503, India

    Anwar Khan

  5. Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741 246, India

    Sunita Mahapatra

  6. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Wellington, Nilgiris, TN, 643 231, India

    M. Sivasamy

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Kumar, S., Singroha, G., Bhardwaj, S.C. et al. Characterization of exotic germplasm lines for resistance to wheat rusts and spot blotch. Indian Phytopathology 73, 237–243 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-020-00232-z

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