Wheat is globally one of the most important crops. With the current human population growth rate, there is an increasing need to raise wheat productivity by means of plant breeding, along with development of more efficient and sustainable agricultural systems. Damage by pathogens and pests, in combination with adverse climate effects, need to be counteracted by incorporating new germplasm that ...

Stripe rust (yellow rust) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, one of the most dangerous diseases wheat. Marker assisted selection methods make it possible to accelerate resistance gene donors improve breeding material through their introduction into hybridization programs. The goal this study was determine presence/absence yellow genes in wheat recombinant inbred lines Almaly/Avocet ...

Morphological studies and phylogenetic analysis based on the ITS sequence data showed that there is considerable differences within the Puccinia striiformis complex on members of Triticeae(Triticum and Hordeum), Dactylis glomerata and Poa pratensis. Based on the above molecular and morphological data, we suggest dividing P. striiformis as follows: - P. striiformis s. str. mainly on Triticeae. -...

eight promising lines of bread wheat which had been selected through the preliminary and advanced traits, together with two check cultivar shiroudi and tajan were evaluated for yield, adabtability and response to cereal diseases in an on farm experiment conducted in two sites in moghan. combined analysis of variance on yield and yield components showed significant differences of lines in yield ...

Yellow starthistle (YST) (Centaurea solstitialis) is an invasive weed in the USA and a target of classical biological control. However, the precise geographical origin(s) of YST in the USA is not known. This study was conducted to learn whether the origin(s) of YST in California, USA could be determined on the basis of digital image analysis (DIA) of YST reactions to isolates of the rust Puccin...

It has important significance to improve monitoring the diseases and pest level and to maintain food security and ecological environment protection in China. There is a distinct difference on the chlorophyll content between the disease and health leaves after analyzing. Therefore the following bands, 470nm, 550nm, 635nm, 680nm, 800nm, sensitive to chlorophyll are used to monitoring the disease ...

Resistance gene analog-expressed sequence tag (RGA-EST)-based markers have been used for variety discrimination and studies of genetic diversity in wheat. Our aim is to increase the competitiveness of public wheat breeding programs through intensive use of modern selection technologies, mainly marker-assisted selection. The genetic diversity of 77 wheat nucleotide binding site (NBS)-containing ...

Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (PST), a basidiomycota responsible for wheat yellow rust, has a strict clonal behavior and a low genetic diversity in European and Australian populations. On the other hand high diversity has been reported in Chinese populations. Moreover it is thought that in China yellow rust epidemics start recurrently from the western highlands where over-summering occurs....