Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue: 3

Identification of Diverse Sources of Multiple Disease Resistance in Wheat

  • Author:
  • AK Sharma1, MS Saharan1, I Sharma1, M Singh1, S Kundu1, BS Phogat2, M Meeta3, Deep Shikha4, K Srivastava4, SP Singh5, SS Vaish6, PC Mishra7, BK Honrao8, IK Kalappanavar9, VA Solanki10, Kalyani Srinivasan2, Sherry Rachel Jacob2, RK Tyagi2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 238 to 245

1All India Co-ordinated Wheat and Barley Improvement Project (AICW&BIP), Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal-132001, Haryana

10Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Vijapur-382870, Gujarat

2National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012

3Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, Punjab

4Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand

5Narendra Deva University of Agricultre and Technology, Faizabad-224229, Uttar Pradesh

6Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, Uttar Pradesh

7Zonal Agricultural Research Station (JNKVV), Powarkheda, Madhya Pradesh

8Agharkar Research Institute, Pune-411004, Maharashtra

9University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-560065, Karnataka

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

Wheat germplasm, numbering 6, 319 available with NBPGR, New Delhi, was evaluated at multilocations during 2004–05 to 2008–09 (five crop seasons) against major diseases of wheat under hot spot and artificially epiphytotic conditions. The diseases were: the three rusts, foliar blight and Karnal bunt. Based on this, the accessions of germplasm were identified as having multiple disease resistance. These diverse sources are available in National Genebank of NBPGR, New Delhi, and can be utilized in the breeding programme for providing durable or sustainable resistance.

Keywords

Diverse sources of resistance, Foliar blight, Karnal bunt, Multiple disease resistance, Rusts of wheat, Triticum aestivum, Wheat