Reaction of Winter Wheat Cultivars to Artificially Inoculated Seed-borne Pink Snow Mold.

Genomic Regions Associated with Tolerance to Freezing Stress and Snow Mold in Winter Wheat

Plants grown through the winter are subject to selective pressures that vary with each year's unique conditions, necessitating tolerance of numerous abiotic and biotic stress factors. The objective of this study was to identify molecular markers in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) associated with tolerance of two of these stresses, freezing temperatures and snow mold-a fungal disease complex...

Winter Wheat Growth in Artificially Compacted Soil

Managing Snow Mold Diseases of Winter Cereals and Turf

Most snow mold pathogens cause plant injury only under prolonged snow cover, so snow mold diseases are severe primarily in regions where snow cover persists for more than 100 days. Even within these regions, disease occurrence and severity varies greatly from year to year. When disease is severe, individual fungal colonies coalesce, resulting in substantial losses in plant stand (20). In other ...

Seed Borne Mycoflora of Some Commercial Wheat (triticum Aestivum L.) Cultivars in Punjab, Pakistan

Seed borne mycoflora associated with ten commercial varieties of wheat viz. Blue silver, Faisalabad 85, Manthar-3, Pak 81, Parwaz 94, Pirsabaq 2005, Punjnad-1, Sariab-92, Sh-2002 and Wafaq-2001 was investigated through standard blotter paper and agar plate method by using Mann-Whitney U test. At least eleven fungal genera were recovered from seeds. The most frequently isolated fungi were Bipola...

Cold-induced responses in annual bluegrass genotypes with differential resistance to pink snow mold (Microdochium nivale).

Greens-type annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) is susceptible to winter stresses including subfreezing temperatures and pink snow mold (SM). To better understand the mechanisms of SM resistance in annual bluegrass, four SM-resistant and four SM-sensitive genotypes were incubated at low temperature with Microdochium nivale (Fries) Samuels & Hallett, the causal agent of pink snow mold. We assessed t...