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Inheritance of resistance to Fusarium head blight in three European winter wheat populations

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Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance is of particular importance in wheat breeding programmes due to the detrimental effects of this fungal disease on human and animal health, yield and grain quality. Segregation for FHB resistance in three European winter wheat populations enabled the identification of resistance loci in well-adapted germplasm. Populations obtained from crosses of resistant cultivars Apache, History and Romanus with susceptible semi-dwarfs Biscay, Rubens and Pirat, respectively, were mapped and analysed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for FHB severity, ear emergence time and plant height. The results of the present study together with previous studies in UK winter wheat indicated that the semi-dwarfing allele Rht-D1b seems to be the major source for FHB susceptibility in European winter wheat. The high resistance level of the cultivars Romanus and History was conditioned by several minor resistance QTL interacting with the environment and the absence of Rht-D1b. In contrast, the semi-dwarf parents contributed resistance alleles of major effects apparently compensating the negative effects of Rht-D1b on FHB reaction. The moderately resistant cultivar Apache contributed a major QTL on chromosome 6A in a genome region previously shown to carry resistance loci to FHB. A total of 18 genomic regions were repeatedly associated with FHB resistance. The results indicate that common resistance-associated genes or genomic regions are present in European winter wheats.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the participating breeders H. Cöster, E. Ebmeyer and H. Kempf for providing the populations and the management of the field trials. We gratefully acknowledge the excellent work of J. Brandlmeier, P. Greim, L. Logothetis, E. Madge-Pimentel and S. Schmidt and the staff of the Working Groups of Genome Analysis and Wheat Breeding Research of the Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture. Many thanks also to G. Brunsbach, B. Lieberherr, U. Liesenberg and M. Scholz for the evaluation of field trials at the University of Hohenheim, KWS LOCHOW GmbH and RAGT 2n. This project was financially supported by the Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) and the Gemeinschaft zur Förderung der privaten deutschen Pflanzenzüchtung e.V. (GFP).

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  1. Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding, Am Gereuth 8, 85354, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

    Josef Holzapfel, Jennifer Häberle, Günther Schweizer, Volker Mohler, Gerhard Zimmermann & Lorenz Hartl

  2. Universität Hohenheim (720), State Plant Breeding Institute, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany

    Hans-Henning Voss & Thomas Miedaner

  3. KWS LOCHOW GmbH, Bollersener Weg 5, 29296, Bergen, Germany

    Viktor Korzun

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S1: Pearson correlation coefficients of FHB severity between environments for the populations Apache/Biscay, History/Rubens and Romanus/Pirat. All correlations were highly significant (P < 0.0001) (PDF 15 kb)

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S2: Genetic maps with QTL positions for the populations Apache/Biscay (A/B), History/Rubens (H/R) and Romanus/Pirat (R/P). Units of the ruler are centiMorgans. Horizontal lines connect similar loci between populations. Bar lengths for QTL represent 99.9% confidence intervals obtained by bootstrapping. Fhs: QTL for Fusarium head blight severity, Eet: Overlapping QTL for ear emergence time, Ht: Overlapping QTL for plant height. QTL for ear emergence time and plant height are only shown in the case of coincidence with FHB severity QTL (PDF 242 kb)

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Holzapfel, J., Voss, HH., Miedaner, T. et al. Inheritance of resistance to Fusarium head blight in three European winter wheat populations. Theor Appl Genet 117, 1119–1128 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-008-0850-z

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