The roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. In our study we investigated the effects of brassinosteroid on drought resistance in S. miltiorrhiza using the method of measuring the antioxidant enzyme activity (SOD, CAT, POD) of S. miltiorrhiza seedling under drought stress after spaying different levels of brassinosteroid. The results showed that after sprayi...

The LmR1 locus, which controls seedling resistance to the blackleg fungus Leptosphaeria maculans in the Brassica napus cultivar Shiralee, was positioned on linkage group N7. Fine genetic mapping in a population of 2500 backcross lines identified three molecular markers that cosegregated with LmR1. Additional linkage mapping in a second population colocalized a seedling resistance gene, ClmR1, f...

race-specific resistance of wheat to yellow rust caused by puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici has been reported as short-lived. partial resistance, a kind of quantitative resistance, has been reported to be more stable. partial resistance in terms of slow rusting parameters including final rust severity (frs), apparent infection rate (r), relative area under disease progress curve (raudpc), an...

two barley (hordeun vulgare l.) genotypes, radical and cwb, with good to moderate levels of resistance to powdery mildew were crossed with a highly susceptible cultivar (afzal) to determine the genetics of resistance. the parents, fl, f2 and f3 generations of each of the two crosses, were evaluated for powdery mildew resistance in the glasshouse and field at the college of agriculture in karaj ...

Eleven winter barley cultivars from Palestine screened for their resistance to powdery mildew in the field and under controlled conditions while, two types of resistance were identified. Three accessions showed low infection type (IT) at seedling stage with low disease severity (DS) in the mature plant. Six other lines showed low DS and low infection frequency (IF) with no macroscopically visib...

Diversity of resistance to leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina can be enhanced in wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars through a better knowledge of resistance genes that are present in important cultivars and germplasm. Multi-pathotype tests on 84 wheat cultivars grown in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during 1992-2002 and 39 differential testers enabled the postulation of nine known ge...

Systemic acquired resistance (SARI and microbial biocontrol each hold promise as alternatives to pesticides for control of plant diseases. SAR and Bacillus cereus UW85, a microbial biocontrol agent, separately suppress seedling damping-off diseases caused by oomycete pathogens. The purposes of this study were to investigate how expression of SAR affected the efficacy of biocontrol by UW85 and i...

The wheat gene Lr34 confers durable and partial field resistance against the obligate biotrophic, pathogenic rust fungi and powdery mildew in adult wheat plants. The resistant Lr34 allele evolved after wheat domestication through two gain-of-function mutations in an ATP-binding cassette transporter gene. An Lr34-like fungal disease resistance with a similar broad-spectrum specificity and durabi...