Project Number: 3602-21220-010-06
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 06, 2007
End Date: Aug 31, 2012

Objective:
Enhance wheat germplasm for resistance to important diseases and pests, including barley yellow dwarf virus and cereal yellow dwarf virus, leaf rust, Stagonospora nodorum, Septoria tritici, and Fusarium graminearum.

Approach:
Utilize conventional molecular genetics and plant breeding methodologies with DNA technologies including DNA markers like RAF and SSRs, high throughput sequencing and microarray analyses to increase host resistance in soft red winter wheat to an array of pathogens and pests.