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The effectiveness of evaluating wild species: searching for sources of resistance to bruchid beetles in the genus Vigna subgenus Ceratotropis

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A species level germplasm collection representing 76% of known taxa in the genus Vigna subgenus Ceratotropis was evaluated for resistance to two species of bruchid beetles, Callosobruchus chinensis and C. maculatus. Seven taxa consisting of 29 accessions were found to be resistant to C. chinensis and 4 taxa consisting of 24 accessions were found to be resistant to C. maculatus. This compared with no resistant accessions being found in several hundred landrace accessions of mungbean, V. radiata var. radiata, in the same subgenus. Sometimes resistance was found in all accessions of a particular taxon, such as complete resistance to both C. chinensis and C. macualtus in V. umbellata. Other taxa showed intra taxon variation for resistance such as V. reflexo-pilosa andV. minima. The levels and patterns of resistance among taxa were diverse. The results suggest that various factors cause resistance to bruchid in the subgenus Ceratotropis. While the number of eggs laid on seeds generally reflected seed size, one small seeded cultivar of V. mungo var. mungo, black gram, had an unusually high number of eggs laid per seed. No correlation was found between seed size and levels of resistance. The species level germplasm collection, which reflects the core collection concept in trying to maximize genetic diversity in a limited number of accessions, has enabled a large number of potentially useful sources of resistance to bruchid beetles to be found efficiently.

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  1. National Institute of Agrobiological Resources (NIAR), Kannondai 2–1–2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305–8602, Japan

    Norihiko Tomooka, Kouichi Kashiwaba & Duncan A. Vaughan

  2. Chugoku National Agricultural Experiment Station, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, 721–8514, Japan

    Masao Ishimoto

  3. Okinawa branch, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Maesato Kawarabaru 1091–1, Ishigaki, Okinawa, 907-0002, Japan

    Yoshinobu Egawa

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Tomooka, N., Kashiwaba, K., Vaughan, D.A. et al. The effectiveness of evaluating wild species: searching for sources of resistance to bruchid beetles in the genus Vigna subgenus Ceratotropis . Euphytica 115, 27–41 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003906715119

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