Evaluation of stripe rust resistance and analysis of resistance genes in wheat genotypes from Pakistan and Southwest China
Sakina Abbas, Yunfang Li, Jing Lu, Jianming Hu, Xinnuo Zhang, Xue Lv, Armghan Shahzad, Donghui Ao, Maryam Abbas, Yu Wu, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Fayyaz · 2024
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Sakina Abbas and co-authors published this wheat study in 2024. Stripe rust, a fungal disease, threatens wheat harvests worldwide, and the fungus keeps evolving past existing defenses. The team examined 349 wheat lines from Pakistan and southwest China. They screened them for thirteen known resistance genes using DNA markers. Field trials then measured how each line actually withstood current rust races.
Over sixty percent of the Chuanyu lines from China resisted, against half of Pakistan's recent varieties and a fifth of its historic ones. Some genes appeared everywhere, while one useful gene was missing entirely from the Chinese set. Certain historic genes still worked well against today's fungus. Four gene pairings stood out for strengthening resistance when combined. The authors urge breeders to stack such genes deliberately. Rotating and combining defenses should slow the fungus and protect yields longer in both regions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sakina Abbas, Yunfang Li, Jing Lu, Jianming Hu, Xinnuo Zhang, Xue Lv, Armghan Shahzad, Donghui Ao, Maryam Abbas, Yu Wu, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Fayyaz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |