Effect of leaf age on components of partial resistance in rice to leaf blast

Summary Ten rice genotypes were inoculated with a virulent isolate of Magnaporthe grisea to study the effect of leaf age on components of partial resistance, and evaluate associations between these components. The number of sporulating lesions per cm² leaf declined with increase of leaf age in all genotypes. The number of lesions per cm² leaf area in one week old leaves was about 25% that of the number in very young leaves in the susceptible cultivar CO39, but less than 2% in the more resistant cultivars IR36, IR60 and IR62. Large differences between genotypes were found for the number of sporulating lesions that developed, and this factor was closely related to the period that leaves remained susceptible after appearance. The number of lesions in the most susceptible cultivar CO39 was about 7 times that in the cultivars IR60 and IR64. Differences between genotypes were also found for lesion size. The effect of aging on average lesion size was less pronounced than on lesion density. Lesion size and lesion density were positively correlated, but a rapid decline of density was not necessarily accompanied by a rapid decline of size. No apparent differences between genotypes were observed for latent period. Genotypes with leaves that became highly resistant soon after appearance expressed higher levels of partial resistance in the field.     

Evaluation and inheritance of the Lycopersicon hirsutum resistance against potato virus Y

Summary Potato virus Y (PVY) infects most Solanaceous crops grown in Mediterranean countries in open fields and in greenhouses. Necrogenic strains, which have been isolated from diseased tomatoes in France since the 1980's, seriously cause yield and quality loss of tomato fruits. Lycopersicon hirsutum PI 247087 was found to be resistant to PVY. Virus could not be detected in inoculated leaves by ELISA and/or by back-inoculation on susceptible plants. This resistance was efficient against the 16 tested isolates or strains. Temperature and inoculum concentration did not affect its expression. All the F₁ plants of (Momor × PI 247087), (PI 134417 × PI 247087) and (PI 247087 × PI 134417) had symptom scores and ELISA values similar to those of the susceptible parents. The mechanism of resistance could be immunity-like or inhibition of virus migration from cell to cell. The resistance of L. hirsutum PI 247087 appeared to be governed by two independent recessive genes. In a few F₂ plants of (PI 134417 × PI 247087) and F₂ (Momor × PI 247087), virus was able to multiply in the inoculated leaves but could not establish a systemic infection. This finding may suggest a mechanism which interfers with the long distance migration of the virus in the plant.     

Inheritance of resistance to the chlorosis component of tan spot of wheat caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, races 1 and 3

The fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, causal agent of tan spot of wheat, produces two phenotypically distinct symptoms, tan necrosis and extensive chlorosis. The inheritance of resistance to chlorosis induced by P. tritici-repentis races 1 and 3 was studied in crosses between common wheat resistant genotypes Erik, Hadden, Red Chief, Glenlea, and 86ISMN 2137 and susceptible genotype 6B-365. Plants were inoculated under controlled environmental conditions at the two-leaf stage and disease rating was based on presence or absence of chlorosis. In all the resistant × susceptible crosses, F₁ plants were resistant and the segregation of the F₂ generation and F₃ families indicated that a single dominant gene controlled resistance. Lack of segregation in a partial diallel series of crosses among the resistant genotypes tested with race 3␣indicated that the resistant genotypes possessed␣the same resistance gene. This resistance gene was effective against chlorosis induced by P.␣tritici-repentis races 1 and 3.     

大豆花叶病引起的大豆顶端坏死症

２个抗病亲本和２个感病亲本配制４个杂交组合和４个回交组合。调查其Ｆ１、Ｆ２和ＢＣＦ１群体接种东北大豆花叶病毒二号株系后，顶端坏死株的形成和分离比例。Ｆ１表现两种类型：无症株和坏死株，Ｆ２表现三种类型：无症株、有症株（花叶、皱缩等）和坏死株。其分离比例或为３抗：１感，或为７抗；９感，χ＾２测验符合一对显性基因控制或者两对隐性互补基因控制。     

Difference between USA and French isolates of tobacco etch virus and pepper mottle virus displayed by doubled haploid line analysis

Summary Doubled haploid peppers resistant in France to specific strains of tobacco etch virus (TEV) and pepper mottle virus (PeMV) were indexed for resistance to USA strains of TEV and PeMV. The doubled haploids were inoculated when four to six true leaves had developed. The peppers were indexed after an incubation period, and a disease index was calculated. Plants without viral symptoms were reinoculated. Plants challenged to TEV were inoculated four times. Doubled haploids, TEV-resistant in France, were susceptible to the USA strain by the fourth screening. All doubled haploid lines showed TEV symptoms after the fourth inoculation. Two doubled haploids lines, no. 4 and no. 8, had about 6% resistance to TEV after the fourth inoculation. Doubled haploid line no. 5 was 100% resistant to PeMV. The results confirm that the USA PeMV and the USA TEV isolates are different pathotypes than the French ones used originally to screen the doubled haploids. In addition, the use of doubled haploids to identify pathotypes of PeMV and TEV is demonstrated.     

玉米矮花叶病毒抗性资源鉴定的研究

利用人工接毒方法对 70份玉米种质资源进行了两年玉米矮花叶病毒B株系的抗性鉴定。依据病情指数 ( % )将抗病程度分为高抗、抗、中抗及感病 4个等级。试验筛选出高抗自交系 4份、高抗单交种 3个、抗病毒自交系 10份、抗病单交种 3个 ;中抗自交系 6份、中抗群体 3个。讨论了这些种质资源在我国抗玉米矮花叶病遗传及育种研究上的应用价值     

Resistance to Septoria nodorum blotch in several Triticum species

Summary Resistance to septoria nodorum blotch in Triticum monococcum, T. tauschii, T. timopheevii, T. dicoccum and T. durum was evaluated on plants at the three-leaf stage in greenhouse tests. A high frequency of resistant genotypes was found in T. monococcum, T. tauschii and T. timopheevii, but not in T. dicoccum and T. durum. The resistance of F₁ plants of crosses of resistant T. monococcum (PI 289599) and T. timopheevii (PI 290518) accessions with susceptible common wheat cv. Park and durum wheat cv. Wakooma, respectively, was evaluated on the basis of percentage leaf necrosis, lesion number, lesion size and incubation period. No dominance was found for long incubation period, but various dominance relationships occurred for low percentage leaf necrosis, low lesion number and small lesion size, depending on the cross. Multiple regression analysis showed that lesion number contributed more to percentage leaf necrosis than lesion size or incubation period. Resistance to septoria nodorum blotch was transferred successfully from T. timopheevii to cultivated durum wheat. Resistant BC₁F₇ lines, recovered from the T. timopheevii (PI 290518) × Wakooma cross, showed normal chromosome behaviour at meiosis (14 bivalents) and were self-fertile. However, an effective level of resistance was not recovered in lines derived from the other interspecific crosses.     

Segregation distortion of Brassica carinata derived black rot resistance in Brassica oleracea

Three segregating F₂ populations were developed by self-pollinating 3 black rot resistant F₁ plants, derived from across between black rot resistant parent line 11B-1-12 and the susceptible cauliflower cultivar ‘Snow Ball’. Plants were wound inoculated using 4 isolates ofXanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) race 4, and disease severity ratings of F₂ plants from the three populations were scored. A total of 860 arbitrary oligonucleotide primers were used to amplify DNA from black rot resistant and susceptible F₂ plants and bulks. Eight RAPD markers amplified fragments associated with completely disease free plants following black rot inoculation,which segregated in frequencies far lower than expected. Segregation of markers with black rot resistance indicates that a single, dominant major gene controls black rot resistance in these plants. Stability of this black rot resistance gene in populations derived from 11B-1-12 may complicate introgression into B. oleracea genotypes for hybrid production. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Agroinoculation of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) Overcomes the Virus Resistance of Wild Lycopersicon Species

Accessions of the wild tomato species Lycopersicon chilense LA 1969 and L. hirsutum LA 1777 which are resistant to tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) in field- and in whitefly-mediated transmission tests were agroinoculated with a tandem repeat of the TYLCV genome. Large amounts of viral DNA started to accumulate in the agroinoculated L. chilense and L. hirsutum plants about 10 days after the agroinoculation. Yellowing and narrowing of the upper leaves were observed in the L. chilense plants but no curling as in susceptible L. esculentum cultivars. The agroinoculated L. hirsutum plants showed typical yellowing and curling of young leaves. These findings indicate that TYLCV introduced by means of agroinoculation leads to the breakdown of natural resistance mechanisms which prevent the replication, spread and expression of symptoms in resistant tomato genotypes.     

Abortion of infection structures of wheat leaf rust in susceptible and partially resistant wheat genotypes

Summary Arrest of the growth of wheat leaf rust infection structures was studied with fluorescence microscopy in seedling leaves and flag leaves of the susceptible spring wheat genotypes Morocco and Kaspar and the partially resistant genotypes Westphal 12A and Akabozu. The percentages non-penetrants and substomatal vesicle abortion were low in all genotypes. In the partially resistant genotypes the percentage abortion of infection structures was higher than in the susceptible genotype Morocco. Aborted infection structures had formed one or two haustorial mother cells. In adult plants differences in the percentage aborted infection structures between susceptible and partially resistant genotypes were more pronounced than in seedlings. The so-called late abortion was not observed.     

Incompletely dominant single resistance gene for peanut stripe virus in soybean line AGS 129

Summary Inheritance of resistance to a soybean isolate of peanut stripe virus (PStV-strain PN) was studied in three soybean varieties, AGS 129, Ankur, and PI 230971. Genetic analysis was based on necrotic, mosaic and symptomless reactions in inoculated soybeans. A single incompletely dominant gene in AGS 129 was found to confer the resistance to PStV and was tentatively designated as Pst. The homozygous parent AGS 129, possessing the genotype Pst Pst, was immune while Ankur and PI 230971, with a genotype of pst pst, were susceptible showing mosaic symptoms. The heterozygous genotype Pst pst resulting from the cross of either Ankur or PI 230971 with AGS 129 reacted with necrosis, distinctly different from either of the homozygous genotypes. This genotypic effect was confirmed through the phenotypic segregation in BC, F2, and F3.     

Potato Virus Y Resistance Gene, Ry chc, Mapped to the Distal End of Potato Chromosome 9

Summary A Japanese leading cultivar ‘Konafubuki’ has an extreme resistance gene Ry _chc to Potato virus Y (PVY) in a simplex fashion. To reduce complexity of the highly heterozygous autotetraploid genome and map the Ry _chc gene, haploid plants were parthenogenetically induced from ‘Konafubuki’. The ratio of 7 resistant: 5 susceptible haploids confirmed the single dominant, simplex genotype of ‘Konafubuki’. A selected resistant haploid 98H20-5 was crossed with a susceptible diploid, resulting in 119 F ₁ plants. Using RFLP and RAPD markers, Ry _chc was mapped to the most distal end of the chromosome 9 where the recovery of recombinant genotypes was extremely reduced in this mapping population possibly due to the linked inferiority factor. The location of Ry _chc is different from those of the other extreme resistance genes to PVY, but possibly resides in one of resistance gene clusters.     

Genetical analysis of resistance to Mycosphaerella pinodes in pea seedlings

Summary In studies of the inheritance of resistance, pea seedlings of seven lines in which stems and leaves were both resistant to Mycosphaerella pinodes were crossed with a line in which they were both susceptible. With seven of the crosses resistance was dominant to susceptibility. When F₂ progenies of five crosses were inoculated on either stems or leaves independently, phenotypes segregated in a ratio of 3 resistant: 1 susceptible indicating that a single dominant gene controlled resistance. F₂ progenies of one other cross gave ratios with a better fit to 9 resistant: 7 susceptible indicating that two co-dominant genes controlled resistance. The F₂ progeny of another cross segregated in complex ratios indicating multigene resistance.When resistant lines JI 97 and JI 1089 were crossed with a susceptible line and leaves and stems of each F₂ plant were inoculated, resistance phenotypes segregated independently demonstrating that leaf and stem resistance were controlled by different genes. In two experiments where the F₂ progeny of the cross JI 97×JI 1089 were tested for stem and leaf resistance separately, both characters segregated in a ratio of 15 resistant:1 susceptible indicating that these two resistant lines contain two non-allelic genes for stem resistance (designated Rmp1 and Rmp2) and two for leaf resistance (designated Rmp3 and Rmp4). Evidence that the gene for leaf resistance in JI 1089 is located in linkage group 4 of Pisum sativum is presented.     

Evaluation of globe artichoke and related germplasm for resistance to artichoke latent virus

Summary A total of 280 globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) clones were assessed for reaction to naturally occurring artichoke latent virus (ALV) in field trials. Also, the reaction of 17 seed progenies of crosses which produced ALV-resistant clones in the field, 20 self progenies of parental genotypes common to these crosses, self progenies of 17 artichoke cultivars, and 7 accessions ofC. cardunculus andC. syriaca were evaluated in the glasshouse following mechanical inoculation with ALV. The local and systemic presence of ALV, and the relative virus content in infected plants were determined by ELISA.All cultivars and most of the otherC. scolymus material tested (clones and seed progenies) proved to be highly susceptible to ALV. Ten progenies were less susceptible to mechanical inoculation as shown by the moment the virus could be detected, and a slow rate of accumulation of viral antigen. Some plants in two seed progenies possessed apparently a high resistance as could be concluded from the failure of ALV to spread or to multiply in plant.Accessions ofC. cardunculus andC. syriaca were also highly susceptible to ALV. However, an interspecific hybridC. cardunculus x C. syriaca presented the highest level of resistance, the plants remained free of local and systemic infection. Ratios of resistant to susceptible plants in self progenies of resistant plants suggested that this resistance was dominant.     

Evaluation of greenhouse inoculation techniques to screen sorghum for resistance to downy mildew

Summary Six inoculation techniques were compared for the artificial promotion of downy mildew (Peronosclerospora sorghi) in sorghum. These were (1) sprouted seeds incubated between sporulating infected leaves, (2) sprouted seeds depped in conidial suspension, (3) sprouted seeds sprayed with conidial suspension, (4) seedlings at plumule stage inoculated with drops of a conidial suspension, (5) seedlings at plumule stage sprayed with a conidial suspension, and (6) seedling showered with conidia falling from infected leaves. Seedlings at the one-leaf stage sprayed with a conidial suspension (6 × 10⁵ ml^-1) showed the highest systemic infection (100%) in the susceptible lines IS 643 and IS 18433. This technique is effective, repeatable, and allows the deposition of a conidial suspension as a fine mist on the entire seedling surface. In the greenhouse, the technique was used to test the downy mildew reaction of genotypes previously reported as resistant (< 5% incidence) in 3–4 years of field screenings. Of the 61 genotypes tested, 21 were free from downy mildew, 14 had less than 5% incidence, and the rest showed variable susceptible reactions. Therefore, the technique can be reliably and effectively used in the greenhouse to detect disease escapes and to indentify resistance.     

Generation means analysis of resistance to peanut bud necrosis caused by peanut bud necrosis tospovirus in peanut

This study was conducted to evaluate the types of gene action governing the inheritance of resistance to peanut bud necrosis disease (PBND) in populations derived from three crosses involving two resistant (ICGV 86388 and IC 10) and one susceptible (KK 60–1) peanut lines. Populations were composed of P₁ P₂, F₁ F₂, BC₁₁, BC₁₂, BC₁₁S and BC₁₂S. These populations were evaluated for PBND incidence in a farmer's field in Kalasin province in north‐east Thailand, where PBND is a recurring problem. Results showed variations between crosses in the relative contributions of different types of gene effect. The results indicate that multiple genes control the PBND resistance trait, and that the two resistant lines differ in some of these genes. As non‐additive gene effects are important in all three crosses, selection for low PBND incidence in these crosses would be more effective in later generations.     

Brassica coenospecies: a rich reservoir for genetic resistance to leaf spot caused by Alternaria brassicae

Development of leaf spot resistant mustard cultivars is a relevant objective in view of heavy crop losses caused by this pathogen. Thirty-eight species belonging to 9 genera, including cultivated and wild allies, of the genus Brassica were evaluated under epiphytotic conditions for two years. Inoculations were done on whole plants (in vivo) and on detached leaves (in vitro). Data on incubation period, number of lesions per leaf, lesion size and leaf area covered by lesions were recorded. Species which never produced disease symptoms throughout the growing period in pots and until 72 hours after inoculation in detached leaf assays during both years were treated as resistant, while those that produced symptoms were classified as moderately resistant, susceptible or highly susceptible depending upon incubation period, size of lesions and leaf area covered by disease symptoms. Eight species (Brassica desnottesii, Camelina sativa, Coincya pseuderucastrum, Diplotaxis berthautii, D. catholica, D. cretacea, D. erucoides, and Erucastrum gallicum) were found completely resistant, whereas others were classified as moderately resistant (12), susceptible (11) or highly susceptible (9). Since resistance is unavailable within the cultivated species, these 8 resistant wild species could be used as donor parents for introgressing resistance to leaf spot disease in Indian mustard. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Breeding for resistance to rhizomania in sugar-beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

In breeding for resistance to rhizomania, breeding material was routinely examined for resistance to the rhizomania virus over several years. This study was performed in order to investigate the value of virological examination of sugarbeet breeding material in breeding for resistance to the rhizomania virus. Tests were conducted with varieties susceptible or partially resistant to rhizomania, as well as with several new and more-resistant hybrids. A test on young plants showed that all genotypes contained beet necrotic yellow-vein virus (BNYVV), but that the virus content differed widely. Plants of two commercially used partially resistant varieties had, on average, only half the virus content of susceptible varieties in their roots, and plants of eight new hybrids still in the process of registration contained less than one third of that amount. There was a significant negative correlation between the quantity of BNYVV in young plant roots and final yield under disease conditions in the field. Opportunities for further improvement in the level of the resistance to BNYVV in sugarbeet by means of conventional breeding programmes are discussed.     

Accumulation of soluble phenolic compounds in sunflower capitula correlates with resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Disease symptoms and total soluble phenolics content have been analysed in four sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)lines with different resistance levels(from highly susceptible to resistant) to head rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary. At the beginning of the flowering stage, capitula were inoculated by spraying with a water suspension of ascospores, and disease symptoms were evaluated from day 6 to day14 after inoculation. The most susceptible genotypes showed all their ovaries to be necrosed and abundant lesions in corollas, bracts and receptacle. In the resistant line, the ovary and corolla were only partially necrosed with no symptoms in the bracts or the receptacle. Total soluble phenolics were extracted and quantified from different parts of the capitulum in both inoculated and non-inoculated plants. The amount of phenolic compounds depended on the sunflower line, the time after inoculation, and the tissue. Higher constitutive and induced phenolic content as well as phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity were present in the most resistant line, these differences correlated with the absence/presence of disease symptoms. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Shading of plants facilitates selection for powdery mildew resistance in Squash

Summary Powdery mildew development was assessed on squash (Cucurbita pepo) plants of a susceptible cultivar, a resistant accession, their F₁, and their F₂ in an early summer planting in the field, covered or not covered with a shading net. Three reaction types were observed: susceptible, powdery mildew on stems and on both, the upper and lower leaf surfaces, as in the susceptible parent; resistant, no powdery mildew on leaves or stems, as in the resistant parent; and partially resistant, powdery mildew on upper leaf surfaces only, as in the F₁. Disease presence on the stem was associated with susceptibility. Shading hastened the appearance of powdery mildew and increased the severity of infection on partially resistant and susceptible plants, facilitating identification of resistant individuals in the F₂ population.Contribution No. 1613-E from the Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel