1. A review of wheat leaf rust research and the development of resistant cultivars in Canada
- Author
-
Brent McCallum, Sílvia Barcellos Rosa, Curt A. McCartney, Sylvie Cloutier, Christof Rampitsch, G. Francois Marais, D. Gavin Humphreys, Xiben Wang, Barry J. Saville, Vinay Panwar, Guus Bakkeren, and Colin W. Hiebert
- Subjects
0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Puccinia triticina ,Genetic resistance ,fungi ,food and beverages ,Plant Science ,Biology ,Integrated approach ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Genetic analysis ,Rust ,03 medical and health sciences ,Wheat leaf rust ,030104 developmental biology ,Agronomy ,Cultivar ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Wheat leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks., is of worldwide concern for wheat producers. The disease has been an annual problem for Canadian wheat producers since the early days of wheat cultivation in the 1800s, and research focused on combating this disease began in the early 1900s. Significant progress was made towards understanding the epidemiology of wheat leaf rust and developing genetic resistance in many countries worldwide. This review paper focuses exclusively on the research and development done in whole, or in part, in Canada. An integrated approach to controlling wheat leaf rust consisted of research in the following areas: the early research on wheat leaf rust in Canada, breeding and commercialization of high quality rust resistant wheat cultivars, discovery and genetic analysis of leaf rust resistance genes, the population biology and genetics of the P. triticina/wheat interaction. This review summarizes the research in each of these areas and the connections between the d...
- Published
- 2016