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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 58(6)

Wheat rust resistance research at CSIRO

Jeffrey G. Ellis A B , Rohit Mago A , Raja Kota A , Peter N. Dodds A , Helen McFadden A , Greg Lawrence A , Wolfgang Spielmeyer A and Evans Lagudah A
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A CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: jeff.ellis@csiro.au

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 58(6) 507-511 https://doi.org/10.1071/AR06151
Submitted: 10 May 2006  Accepted: 7 September 2006   Published: 26 June 2007

Abstract

Although chemical control is available for rust diseases in wheat, economic and environmental factors favour genetic solutions. Maintenance and improvement of levels of resistance and durability of the genetic control of the 3 wheat rust diseases will occur with the application of DNA markers for pyramiding resistance genes. Information about the molecular basis of rust resistance, including durable, adult-plant resistance, coming from studies in model species such as flax and flax rust and from studies of wheat and barley, will provide knowledge for new biotechnological approaches to rust resistance. Increasing cereal gene sequence data will improve the efficiency of cloning disease resistance genes and, together with the rapid progress in understanding the molecular basis of rust resistance, will make it possible to construct transgenic plants with multiple rust resistance genes at a single locus, which will provide efficient breeding and increased durability of rust resistance.

Additional keywords: rust resistance, avirulence, adult plant resistance, Ug99.


Acknowledgments

The work described here has been carried out in the Australian Cereal Rust Control Program, a collaborative program involving The University of Sydney, The University of Adelaide, CIMMYT, and CSIRO with the support of the Grains Research and Development Council.


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