Research Accomplishment Reports 2010

Complementary Approaches to Developing Scab Resistant Wheat Varieties

D. A. Van Sanford
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

 

Non-Technical Summary

Fusarium head blight is a serious disease of wheat in Kentucky. Our crop is at risk due to the cropping system and rotation we follow. Consequences include reduced yield, test weight and grain quality as well as reduced food safety through toxin accumulation. All of these factors lead to reduced dollars to farmers and to the entire wheat industry. The best approach to solving this problem is through breeding integrated with management tools such as fungicides. The impact of this work is on the order of multi-million dollar savings in a year with moderate disease pressure in Kentucky.

2010 Project Description

High yielding scab resistant lines have been identified. Results have been disseminated at field days and in reports to stakeholders.

2010 Impact

The impact of this research and its outputs has been felt first by other wheat breeders who have been using this material to make new crosses. If one or more of these lines is released as a cultivar, the impact will be felt by growers, millers and other stakeholders.

2010 Publications

Hall, M. D. D. Tucker, C. A. Griffey, S. Liu, C. Sneller, M. Guttieri, D. Van Sanford, J. Costa, D. Marshall, and G. L. Brown-Guedira. 2010. Registration of USG 3209/Jaypee Wheat Recombinant Inbred Line Mapping Population.. J Plant Regis 4:195-204.

Guedira, M., G. Brown-Guedira, D. Van Sanford, C. Sneller, E. Souza, D. Marshall. 2009. Distribution of Rht genes in winter wheat germplasm from the eastern and central United States. Crop Sci 50: 1811-1822.

Kang, Jing Anthony Clark, David Van Sanford, Carl Griffey, Gina Brown-Guedira, Yanhong Dong, J. Paul Murphy and Jose Costa. 2010. Exotic Scab Resistance Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Effects on Soft Red Winter Wheat. Crop Science 50: In Press

Bruening, C. Tutt, C.S. Swanson, J. Connelley, G. Olson, and D. Van Sanford. 2010. 2010 Kentucky Small Grain Variety Performance Tests. University of Kentucky Progress Report 604.

Ana Balut, Anthony Clark, Gina Brown-Guedira, Eduard Souza and David Van Sanford. 2010. Validation of Fhb1 and QFhs.nau-2DL in Several SRW Wheat Breeding Populations. In: Canty, S., A. Clark, J., A. Anderson-Scully and D. Van Sanford (Eds.). Proceedings from the National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Milwaukee, WI; 2010, December 7-9. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.

J. Shoots, M. Guttieri, F. Kolb, J. Lewis, A. McKendry, H. Ohm, C. Sneller, M.E. Sorrells, E. Souza, D. Van Sanford, J. Costa, C. Griffey, S. Harrison, J. Johnson and P. Murph. 2010. Development and Distribution of Male-Sterile Facilitated Recurrent Selection Populations. In: Canty, S., A. Clark, J., A. Anderson-Scully and D. Van Sanford (Eds.). Proceedings from the National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Milwaukee, WI; 2010, December 7-9. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.

E.A. Brucker, J.N. Mundell, D.A. Van Sanford and F.L. Kolb. 2010.Comparison of Two Methods for Estimating Fusarium Damaged Kernels in Soft Red Winter Wheat. In: Canty, S., A. Clark, J., A. Anderson-Scully and D. Van Sanford (Eds.). Proceedings from the National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Milwaukee, WI; 2010, December 7-9. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.

Sladana Bec, Dave Van Sanford and Lisa J. Vaillancourt. 2010. A Cross between Two Genetically Similar Fusarium graminearum Strains Produces Stable Transgressive Segregants for FHB Pathogenicity Related Traits. In: Canty, S., A. Clark, J., A. Anderson- Scully and D. Van Sanford (Eds.). Proceedings from the National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Milwaukee, WI; 2010, December 7-9.

Mundell, Nicki, Brenda Kennedy Don Hershman and Dave Van Sanford . 2010. Effects Of Variety Resistance And Fungicide Application On Head Scab. 2010 Wheat Science Research Report.