Simultaneous selection for yield-related traits and susceptibility to Fusarium head blight in spring wheat RIL population |
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| Authors: | Halina Wi?niewska Maria Surma Karolina Krystkowiak Tadeusz Adamski Anetta Kuczyńska Piotr Ogrodowicz Krzysztof Miko?ajczak Jolanta Belter Maciej Majka Zygmunt Kaczmarek Pawe? Krajewski Aneta Sawikowska Leszek Lenc Anna Baturo-Cie?niewska Aleksander ?ukanowski Tomasz Góral Czes?aw Sadowski |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Strzeszyńska 34, 60-479 Poznań, Poland;2.Department of Molecular Phytopathology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Kordeckiego 20, 85-225 Bydgoszcz, Poland;3.Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute NRI, Radzików, 05-870 Błonie, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by the fungal plant pathogen Fusarium, is a fungal disease that occurs in wheat and can cause significant yield and grain quality losses. The present paper examines variation in the resistance of spring wheat lines derived from a cross between Zebra and Saar cultivars. Experiments covering 198 lines and parental cultivars were conducted in three years, in which inoculation with Fusarium culmorum was applied. Resistance levels were estimated by scoring disease symptoms on kernels. In spite of a similar reaction of parents to F. culmorum infection, significant differentiation between lines was found in all the analyzed traits. Seven molecular markers selected as linked to FHB resistance QTLs gave polymorphic products for Zebra and Saar: Xgwm566, Xgwm46, Xgwm389, Xgwm533, Xgwm156, Xwmc238, and Xgwm341. Markers Xgwm389 and Xgwm533 were associated with the rate of Fusarium-damaged kernels (FDK) as well as with kernel weight per spike and thousand kernel weight in control plants. Zebra allele of marker Xwmc238 increased kernel weight per spike and thousand kernel weight both in control and infected plants, whereas Zebra allele of marker Xgwm566 reduced the percentage of FDK and simultaneously reduced the thousand kernel weight in control and infected plants. |
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| Keywords: | Fusarium culmorum RIL population spring wheat SSR markers spike awness |
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