The effect of 3BS locus of Sumai 3 on Fusarium head blight resistance in Australian wheats
G. Q. Xie A B , M. C. Zhang A C , S. Chakraborty A and C. J. Liu A DA CSIRO Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4074, Australia.
B Feed Science Research Institute of Jiangxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.
C Hebei Food and Oil Crops Institute, 440 Yuhua East Road, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
D Corresponding author. Email: chunji.liu@csiro.au
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47(5) 603-607 https://doi.org/10.1071/EA05250
Submitted: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 3 August 2006 Published: 13 April 2007
Abstract
The 3BS allele of Sumai 3 has been the main source of Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance worldwide. Using molecular markers and FHB resistance screenings, we have analysed the effects of this allele in two backcross and two 4-way F2 populations derived from elite Australian cultivars. Compared to individuals without the Sumai 3 allele, individuals with the allele showed an average 32.0% reduction in FHB severity as measured by number of diseased spikelets. This value was slightly reduced to 29.2% when the total number of spikelets was taken into account by expressing severity as the proportion of diseased spikelets. When compared to the parental cultivars, progeny with the 3BS allele of Sumai 3 offered, on average, 43.3% reduction in FHB severity. Significant differences were not detected between progeny that were homozygous or heterozygous for the 3BS locus, indicating a dominant inheritance of this locus. These results confirm that the 3BS allele controls a large component of the FHB resistance in Sumai 3, which can be readily incorporated and detected in backcross populations using molecular markers. The materials derived from this study could offer significant benefits to the Australian wheat breeding programs.
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Tom Magner for his excellent technical help, to Phil Banks (QDPI, Australia) and Dr T. Ban (JIRCAS, Japan) for providing some of the parental genotypes, to Dr Vivek Mitter and Mr Ross Perrott for preparing the inoculum, and to Drs Kemal Kazan, Lynne McIntyre and Scott Chapman for their critical reading of the manuscript. The project is partially funded by the CRC for Tropical Plant Protection.
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