About Lesson
Breeding for resistance
- Similar as for any other traits, but have special position due to:
➢Reaction can be assayed only diseasing the plants
➢Resistance may be elusive i.e. it may breakdown
Selection for disease resistance
- Sources of resistance
➢ commercial cultivars,
➢ Germplasm collection screen
➢ Relative/related species through interspecific hybridization
➢ Mutation-spontaneous or induced
- Screening technique for resistance
➢ by exposure to the disease pathogen under natural or artificial induced condition
- Breeding techniques:
- The resistance gene must be transferred to an adapted cultivar by one of following ways
➢Backcross breeding method
➢Wide crosses
➢Recurrent selection
➢Genetic engineering
- Progeny testing of resistant plants to verify the inherent nature of resistance