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Biodiversity for stripe rust resistance in turkish wheats (BESTWheats)

Reference	BBS/E/J/0000A230
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Lesley Boyd
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	14,913
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	07/03/2005
End date	06/03/2006
Duration	12 months

Abstract

Turkish wheat varieties offer an untapped source of disease resistance genes for European wheat breeders. Turkish wheat breeding has used a diverse collection of Turkish varieties and landraces, with recent introductions from CIMMYT, Mexico breeding initiatives. However, this source of biodiversity has remained largely unexplored, both for disease resistance and genetic biodiversity by European breeders. Among the diseases of wheat most prevalent in Turkey are the rusts, with stripe rust being a significant problem. A better understanding of the nature and diversity of stripe rust resistance sources in Turkish wheat would be a benefit to both Turkish and European wheat breeders. We aim to screen Turkish wheat varieties along side European varieties to characterise the phenotype of each source of stripe rust resistance. In this way potentially non-race-specific, durable sources of disease resistance will be identified. The Turkish and European wheat varieties will be grouped into distinct and different sources of resistance by screening for physical diversity in regions of the wheat genome associated with resistance genes. This will involve developing and using two resistance gene associated marker systems, NBS-AFLP and EST-SSR markers, both of which will target genes involved in disease resistance within the wheat genome.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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