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In CIMMYT’s Bread Wheat Program we emphasize using historically proven, stable resistance sources in crosses, and alternating segregating populations between very diverse environments, thus exposing the material to various biotic stresses. Both the Sr2 resistance complex against stem rust and the Lr34-complex against leaf rust, enforced by other minor and major resistance genes, have remained effective in high-yielding cultivars exposed to the two rusts, respectively on millions of hectares for 40 and 20 years. By the end of the 1980’s about 60% of the entries distributed to cooperators by CIMMYT via its most popular International Bread Wheat Screening Nursery (IBWSN) expressed high levels of resistance to stem and leaf rust, verging on immunity. No decrease in effectiveness of these resistances is apparent, indicating its possibly durable nature.
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Van Ginkel, M., Rajaram, S. (1993). Breeding for Durable Resistance to Diseases in Wheat: An International Perspective. In: Jacobs, T., Parlevliet, J.E. (eds) Durability of Disease Resistance. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2004-3_28
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