Breeding wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the global north: China, USA, and Canada

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Zhu, Zhanwang
Hao, Yuanfeng
Mergoum, Mohamed
Bai, Guihua
Humphreys, Gavin
Cloutier, Sylvie
Xia, Xianchun
He, Zhonghu
dc.date.accepted
2019-07-05
dc.date.accessioned
2025-12-16T18:08:01Z
dc.date.available
2025-12-16T18:08:01Z
dc.date.issued
2019-07-19
dc.date.submitted
2019-04-14
dc.description.abstract - en
The objective of this paper is to review progress made in wheat breeding for Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance in China, the United States of America (USA), and Canada. In China, numerous Chinese landraces possessing high levels of FHB resistance were grown before the 1950s. Later, pyramiding multiple sources of FHB resistance from introduced germplasm such as Mentana and Funo and locally adapted cultivars played a key role in combining satisfactory FHB resistance and high yield potential in commercial cultivars. Sumai 3, a Chinese spring wheat cultivar, became a major source of FHB resistance in the USA and Canada, and contributed to the release of more than 20 modern cultivars used for wheat production, including the leading hard spring wheat cultivars Alsen, Glenn, Barlow and SY Ingmar from North Dakota, Faller and Prosper from Minnesota, and AAC Brandon from Canada. Brazilian wheat cultivar Frontana, T. dicoccoides and other local germplasm provided additional sources of resistance. The FHB resistant cultivars mostly relied on stepwise accumulation of favorable alleles of both genes for FHB resistance and high yield, with marker-assisted selection being a valuable complement to phenotypic selection. With the Chinese Spring reference genome decoded and resistance gene Fhb1 now cloned, new genomic tools such as genomic selection and gene editing will be available to breeders, thus opening new possibilities for development of FHB resistant cultivars.
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Zhu, Z., Hao, Y., Mergoum, M., Bai, G., Humphreys, G., Cloutier, S., Xia, X., & He, Z. (2019). Breeding wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the global north: China, USA, and Canada. The Crop Journal, 7(6), 730–738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2019.06.003
dc.identifier.doi
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2019.06.003
dc.identifier.issn
2214-5141
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/4088
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher - en
Elsevier B.V.
dc.publisher - fr
Elsevier B.V.
dc.rights - en
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights - fr
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.uri - en
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights.uri - fr
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject - en
Agriculture
Wheat
Crops
Plant diseases
Genetically modified foods
dc.subject - fr
Agriculture
Blé
Cultures
Maladie des plantes
Aliment génétiquement modifié
dc.subject.en - en
Agriculture
Wheat
Crops
Plant diseases
Genetically modified foods
dc.subject.fr - fr
Agriculture
Blé
Cultures
Maladie des plantes
Aliment génétiquement modifié
dc.title - en
Breeding wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the global north: China, USA, and Canada
dc.type - en
Article
dc.type - fr
Article
local.article.journalissue
6
local.article.journaltitle - en
The Crop Journal
local.article.journalvolume
7
local.pagination
730-738
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
local.requestdoi - en
No
local.requestdoi - fr
No
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