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1 August 2003 Assessment of Aegilops tauschii for Resistance to Biotypes of Wheat Curl Mite (Acari: Eriophyidae)
Renu Malik, C. Michael Smith, Gina L. Brown-Guedira, Tom L. Harvey, Bikram S. Gill
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Aegilops tauschii, the wild diploid D-genome progenitor of wheat, Triticum aestivum L., is an important source of resistance to several arthropod pests and pathogens. A total of 108 Ae. tauschii accessions from different geographic regions were evaluated for resistance to biotypes of the wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella Keifer, from Kansas, Nebraska, and Montana. The wheat curl mite is the only vector known to transmit wheat streak mosaic virus. Wheat curl mite resistance was detected in germplasm from all the geographic locations represented. The highest percentage of resistant accessions originated from Turkey, followed by Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea region of Iran. Sixty-seven percent of the accessions exhibited resistance to at least one wheat curl mite biotype and 19% were resistant to all the three biotyopes. Resistance to the accessions tested occurred more frequently in the Nebraska and Kansas biotypes (69% and 64%, respectively) than did resistance to the Montana biotype (42%), although the frequency of resistance was not significant. The differential reactions of accessions to the different wheat curl mite biotypes suggests that Ae. tauschii has at least five different genes for resistance to mite colonization. Ae. tauschii continues to be a very useful source for wheat curl mite resistance genes for bread wheat improvement.

Renu Malik, C. Michael Smith, Gina L. Brown-Guedira, Tom L. Harvey, and Bikram S. Gill "Assessment of Aegilops tauschii for Resistance to Biotypes of Wheat Curl Mite (Acari: Eriophyidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 96(4), 1329-1333, (1 August 2003). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-96.4.1329
Received: 22 August 2002; Accepted: 1 April 2003; Published: 1 August 2003
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KEYWORDS
Aceria tosichella
Aegilops tauschii
plant resistance
Triticum aestivum
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