Disease and insect resistance in cultivated barley accessions from the USDA National Small Grains Collection.

Crop Science,  July, 2005  by Bockelman, Harold E.; Bonman, J. Michael; Jackson, Lee F.; Steffenson, Brian J.

Tags: resistance, U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare L.) accessions from the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) have been tested systematically for the past 20 yr for disease and insect resistance. In this study, we analyzed the resistance to barley yellow dwarf (BYD), spot blotch (SB) caused by Cochliobolus sativus (Ito and Kuribayashi) Drechs.

ex Dastur, net blotch (NB) caused by Pyrenophora teres f. teres Drechs., stripe rust (SR) caused by Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. hordei, and Russian wheat aphid (RWA), Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), with respect to (i) geographic ...

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