New sources of resistance to fungal leaf and head blight diseases of wheat

Availability of multiple disease resistant genotypes is especially important in international breeding centers where hundreds of crosses are prepared annually, and the availability of parents having resistance for multiple diseases would potentially facilitate breeders task in combining multiple disease resistance in a single cross. The principal aim of this study was to identify novel sources of resistance to multiple wheat fungal pathogens including wheat head and leaf blight diseases. For this goal, wheat genotypes of different geographic origins were tested for different FHB resistance types and four leaf spotting diseases including Tan spot (TS), Stagonospora nodorum blotch (SNB), Septoria tritici blotch (STB), in addition to Spot blotch (SB), independently.