Abstract

One thousand and ninety-seven Aegilops accessions were evaluated for their reaction to a PAV serotype of barley yellow dwarf luteovirus (BYDV). The accessions tested belong to the species bicornis, biuncialis, caudata, crassa, columnaris, comosa, cylindrica, kotschyi, longissima, mutica, neglecta (= triaristata 4 ×), ovata, peregrina, searsii, sharonensis, speltoides, tauschii (= squarrosa), triuncialis, umbellulata, uniaristata, vavilovii and ventricosa. The first evaluation of virus levels in the different accessions was conducted at International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria, using double antibody sandwich ELISA (DAS-ELISA). Accession reaction ranged from highly resistant to highly susceptible. Thirty-eight Aegilops accessions resistant at ICARDA, were evaluated at Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, by tissue-blot immunoassay. Diversity of response to BYDV infection was again observed in this elite group. Seven accessions belonging to the species biuncialis, caudata, neglecta and triuncialis were highly BYDV resistant at both locations; five of these originated from Bulgaria. Key words: Introgression, interspecific, Triticum aestivum, BYDV, ELISA, immunoassay, tissue blot

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