In most wheat growing moderate regions and especially in the north of Iran climate, is affected grain filling by several physical and abiotic stresses. In this region, grain filling often occurs when temperatures are increasing and moisture supply is decreasing. The experiment was designed in RCBD with split plot arrangements with four replications. Four irrigation treatments included (I0) no i...

the 1rs chromosome segment derived from petkus rye carries genes for resistance to three wheat rust diseases, namely lr26 for resistance to leaf rust (caused by puccinia triticina), yr9 for resistance to stripe rust (p.striiformis f. sp. tritici) and sr31 for resistance to stem rust (p. graminis f. sp. tritici). since sec-1 is tightly linked with the three rust resis-tance genes electrophoresis...

The effect of some weed control treatments (Bifonex, Tribenuron-methyl, hand weeding and unweeded check), five wheat cultivars (Sakha 69, Sids 6, Sids 7, Sids 8 and Sids 9) and their interaction on the productivity of wheat plants and associated weeds were examined under the sandy soil conditions. The obtained data indicated that total dry weight/m2 recorded at 60 days from wheat sowing signifi...

The fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici possesses a large complement of accessory chromosomes showing presence/absence polymorphism among isolates. These chromosomes encode hundreds of genes; however, their functional role and why the chromosomes have been maintained over long evolutionary times are so far not known. In this study, we addressed the functional relevance of eight accessory...

Fusarium head blight (FHB) significantly reduces grain yield and quality. Identification of genes that govern FHB resistance/susceptibility will facilitate biotechnology-assisted development of superior wheat varieties with FHB resistance. Our study on global expression profiling using microarray and real-time PCR identified three genes that are significantly highly expressed (up-regulated) in ...

Pathogenicity tests verifying the behavior of Septoria tritici isolates should be considered as a priority in the selection of resistant wheat materials to this pathogen, since the aggressiveness of each isolate can vary significantly, causing problems in the evaluation and selection of resistant genotypes. The objective of this work was to determine whether physiologic specialization exists am...

the bird cherry-oat aphid, rhopalosiphum padi (l.) is a serious threat to several cereal crops. host-plant resistance to this aphid could be especially valuable in cereal crops pest management. therefore, we evaluated the development, survivorship, reproduction and population growth parameters of r. padi as resistance indices among six wheat cultivars, including gaskojen, tajan, falat, saysonz,...

We attempted to develop a PCR-based marker that detects various segments of rye chromosome incorporated into wheat. We designed three sets of PCR primers based on the nucleotide sequence data of a rye repetitive sequence previously reported. One of the primer sets amplified a clear ca. 1.4 kb fragment in a rye cultivar but not in any form of wheat, diploid, tetraploid or hexaploid. We used this...