Chinese scientists have introduced the first genetic map in the world to monitor wet resistance for dangerous ‘yellow war’. Yellow rust is a fungal disease that reduces both wheat production and quality.
This success of scientists is capable of making it possible to reduce more durable resistance of wheat and dependence on pesticides.
Research published in Nature Genetics magazine was conducted under the aegis of North West Agricultural and Forestry University (NWAFU) and Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology.
According to Professor King Shinashing, the Yollo Rust is commonly known as ‘wheat cancer’. It changes rapidly, creates a new pathotocype every five years and causes about 10 % of wheat to deteriorate globally.
A five -year -old team of researchers used 2191 samples of wheat collected from around the world. In addition, more than 47,000 yellow reaction records were included in many environment and type pathogens.
Meanwhile, scientists identified 431 locations of yellow rust resistance and made a map of these resistance jeans.
After careful study of 559 Jesus related to yellow rust resistance, three new resistance jeans have been successfully cloned by genes YRR5X, Jean YR6/PM5 and YRKB (TaedR2-B) which provides resistance to yellow corrosion without damaging the production of wheat.
