Saikat Chowdhury, Shreshtha Bansal, Shailendra K Jha, M S Saharan, Niranjana M, Raghunandan K, Manish K Choudhary, Priyanka Agarwal, Niharika Mallick, Vinod
Triticum militinae (2n = 4X = 28, At At GG), belonging to the secondary gene pool of wheat, is known to carry resistance to many diseases. Though some disease resistance genes were reported from T. timopheevii, the closest wild relative of T. militinae, there are no reports from T. militinae. Twenty-one T. militinae Derivatives (TMD lines) developed at the Division of Genetics, IARI, New Delhi, were evaluated for leaf and stripe rusts at seedling and adult plant stages. Eight TMD lines (6-4, 6-5, 11-6, 12-4, 12-8, 12-12, 13-7 and 13-9) showed seedling resistance to both leaf and stripe rusts while six TMD lines (7-5, 7-6, 11-5, 13-1, 13-3 and 13-4) showed seedling resistance to leaf rust but adult plant resistance to stripe rust and three TMD lines (9-1, 9-2 and 15) showed seedling resistance to leaf rust but susceptibility to stripe rust...
April 24, 2024: Scientific Reports