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GrainGenes Reference Report: GCE-51-827

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GCE-51-827
Title
Promising genetic resources for resistance to wheat streak mosaic virus and the wheat curl mite in wheat- Thinopyrum partial amphiploids and their derivatives
Journal
Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Year
2004
Volume
51
Pages
827-835
Author
Li H
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Abstract
Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), vectored by the wheat curl mite (WCM), Aceria tosichella Keifer, is one of the most destructive viral diseases of wheat found in many wheat producing areas of the world. Host resistance is the most effective method for controlling this disease and its vector. Symptomatological analysis and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were used to characterize WSMV-resistance in wheat-alien partial amphiploid lines and their derivatives. The results showed that most of partial amphiploids derived from Thinopyrum ponticum [ Elymus elongatus ] and Th. intermedium [ E. hispidus ] were free of systemic symptoms with very low ELISA readings that were similar to that of the non-inoculated Chinese Spring control. While the partial amphiploid lines 693 and PWM706 were identified as new genetic resources of resistance to WSMV. The present study demonstrated that both symptomatological and ELISA methods efficiently assessed WSMV-resistance in the wheat-alien hybrids and systemic symptom incidence and ELISA absorbance readings were highly correlated ( r SUP 2 =0.8658-0.9323) over time following inoculation. The ELISA results also indicated that the virus did not buildup in the plant tissues of these virus-resistant partial amphiploids. Similar results were observed in chromosome translocation and substitution lines that have the gene Wsm1 conferring WSMV resistance. However, the lines containing the gene Wsm1 and all the partial amphiploid lines, except Agrotana, were susceptible to the WCM. One line derived from a cross of wheat and Agrotana, was effective in controlling the spread of WSMV and was highly resistant to the WCM. Another line and an accession of Triticum dicoccoides (Koern.) Schweinf. were highly susceptible to WSMV and WCM. Early disease development was delayed in a new hard red winter cultivar McClintock. The partial WSMV-resistance of McClintock was demonstrated by initially low ELISA readings, and a lower percentage of infected plants than other WSMV-susceptible wheat. The use of the identified promising sources of resistance to WSMV and the WCM in wheat breeding is discussed
Keyword
agriculture
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