The sensitivity of yield and quality parameters to carbon dioxide concentration [CO2] was determined for individual lines of hard-red spring wheat released in 1903, 1921, 1965 and 1996. All cultivars were evaluated with respect to growth and vegetative characteristics, grain yield and nutritional quality in response to [CO2] increases that corresponded roughly to the CO2 concentrations at the b...

Knowledge of host resistance, inoculum levels, and weather conditions favorable for disease development is necessary to optimize a disease forecaster. A group of plant pathologists from five land-grant universities (North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Purdue, and South Dakota) have collaborated to develop and improve performance of a disease forecasting system for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB). The ...

genetic diversity is necessary for breeding program and increasing genetic gain of selection in crop plants. with the onset of spring growth, spring cold stress is a problem for wheat crops at heading and also may be damaged some other parts of this plant. the aim of this study is the investigation of genetic diversity duo to artificial cold stress on the physiological traits, chlorophyll a, ch...

Based on the electrophoretic spectrum, analysis, 216 genotypes of spring wheat were identified as belonging to 25 types including 18 types of HMW-glutenin for 188 homogeneous cultivars. Most of the spring wheat KASIB could be characterized by the subunits 2 * 7+9 5+10 (40% genotypes), and subunits 2* 7+9 2+12– (30%) and subunits 1*7+9 5+10– (8%). The diversity appears to be determined by varyin...

In years 2007-2008 field experiment with spring wheat was conducted on the parcels (14 m ) with 2m deep concrete walls, filled with six different soils. The goal of this experiment was to evaluate the influence of soil quality on yield and technological properties of spring wheat varieties. The results of the conducted experiment showed that the highest level of spring wheat yielding were obtai...

An association genetics analysis was conducted to investigate the genetics of resistance to Septoria tritici blotch, caused by the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici (alternatively Mycosphaerella graminicola), in cultivars and breeding lines of wheat (Triticum aestivum) used in the UK between 1860 and 2000. The population was tested with Diversity Array Technology (DArT) and simple-sequence repeat (SS...

Expression of resistance to Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica from Aegilops squarrosa was studied in a synthetic allohexaploid produced from Triticum turgidum var. durum cv. Produra and Ae. squarrosa G 3489. The reproductive rate of different races of M. incognita and M. javanica, expressed in eggs per gram of fresh root, was low (P < 0.05) on the synthetic allohexaploid and the resistant p...