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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 58(6)

New sources of rust resistance from alien species: meliorating linked defects and discovery

I. S. Dundas A E , D. R. Anugrahwati B , D. C. Verlin A , R. F. Park C , H. S. Bariana C , R. Mago D and A. K. M. R. Islam A
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A School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.

B Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Indonesia 83127.

C Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, PMB 11, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia.

D CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

E Corresponding author. Email: ian.dundas@adelaide.edu.au

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 58(6) 545-549 https://doi.org/10.1071/AR07056
Submitted: 9 February 2007  Accepted: 23 April 2007   Published: 26 June 2007

Abstract

This paper presents a review of projects undertaken over the past 2 decades aimed at improving the yield and/or quality attributes of translocation lines carrying rust resistance genes from species related to wheat, so as to make these lines more suitable for use in breeding programs. Homeologous recombination between the alien chromosome segments and normal wheat chromosomes was induced in a ph1bph1b background. Lines with shortened alien chromatin were selected using dissociation patterns of molecular-based markers. A new line of bread wheat was developed containing a shortened chromosome 1RS segment carrying rust resistance gene SrR (Secale cereale L.), in which a defect affecting dough-quality appears to have been deleted. In addition, several advanced lines were produced with modified 6Ae#1L chromosome segments with Sr26 (Thinopyrum ponticum), 2S#1 chromosome segments with Sr32, and a previously unnamed gene, a 2S#2 chromosome segment with Sr39 (Triticum speltoides), 4G#1 chromosome segments with Sr37, and 2G#2 chromosome segments with Sr40 (T. timopheevii).

Additional keywords: chromosome, homeologous recombination, rust, rye, Triticum speltoides, Triticum timopheevii, Thinopyrum ponticum.


Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the contribution of Dr K. W. Shepherd in supervision of the initial stages of some of this work and provision of the wheat-rye recombinant DRA-1. Professor R. A. McIntosh kindly provided the Sr32, Sr37, Sr39, Sr40, and SrTt3 lines to the Cereal Cytogenetics Laboratory, University of Adelaide. This work has been principally funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia (GRDC), its preceding funding body the Wheat Research Council, and AusAID (sponsor of second author).


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