Abstract
SUMMARYTwo lines of Viciafaba were as resistant to Aphis fabae as Rastatt, one of their progenitors, when compared with susceptible control varieties in glasshouse experiments. In short experiments, fewer adult aphids settled on plants of resistant varieties, which subsequently bore smaller total numbers of aphids. In a longer experiment, the aphids multiplied more slowly on the resistant varieties, which survived after susceptible beans had been killed.The bean varieties did not vary in numbers of aphids on the stem or growing point but resistant varieties had markedly smaller proportions of the total on the abaxial surface of the leaves; in particular the smaller veins supported fewer aphids. V. narbonensis was very resistant to A. fabae but was susceptible to Myzus persicae, indicating that its resistance mechanism is distinct from that within V. faba.In infested field trials most of the variation in yield of bean varieties was attributable to the size of A. fabae colonies, and resistant varieties outyielded susceptible varieties. Yields of resistant varieties in the presence of large numbers of aphids were, however, less than those from trials without aphids. In uninfested trials susceptible varieties usually gave the largest yields.The significance of these observations is discussed in relation to policies and methods for breeding for resistance to A. fabae in V. faba.
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