Resistance to Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Lab. in a wild Cicer germplasm collection
T. T. Nguyen A , P. W. J. Taylor A , R. J. Redden B and R. Ford A CA BioMarka, School of Agriculture and Food Systems, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.
B Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, Department of Primary Industries, Private Bag 260, Horsham, Vic. 3401, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: rebeccaf@unimelb.edu.au
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 45(10) 1291-1296 https://doi.org/10.1071/EA04031
Submitted: 4 March 2004 Accepted: 23 July 2004 Published: 15 November 2005
Abstract
Cultivated chickpea germplasm collections contain a low frequency of ascochyta blight resistant accessions. This might lead to limitations on the future progress of chickpea breeding worldwide. In an effort to identify novel sources of resistance to ascochyta blight, 56 unique accessions, comprising 8 annual wild Cicer species, were evaluated under a controlled environment that was optimal for infection with an aggressive Australian isolate of Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Labrousse. The majority of wild Cicer accessions were either susceptible or highly susceptible to A. rabiei 21 days after inoculation; however, 11 accessions, of which 7 were Cicer judaicum, were resistant. The most resistant accession detected in this study, ATC 46934, together with accessions ATC 46892 and ATC 46935, which were resistant in this and another study, should be targeted for use in future interspecific resistance breeding programs.
Acknowledgments
This research was funded by the Vietnamese Government, the University of Melbourne and the Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia.
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