Recent Advances in Wheat Head Scab Research in China
Li-Feng Chen, Gui-Hua Bai, and Anne E. Desjardins
About this Project
USDA, Agricultural
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NCAUR
National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research,
USDA, ARS
NAL
National Agricultural Library
USDA, ARS
Project Objective
Wheat head scab (WHS), also called Fusarium head blight, is a serious problem in the People's Republic of China. Chinese scientists began research on WHS 50 years ago and have made great progress, especially in breeding for WHS resistance. Most of their work, however, has been published in the Chinese language, which has limited its accessibility to non-Chinese speaking scientists. The purpose of this review is to bring English language readers up-to-date on scab research that has been published in Chinese. We will critically review research on biology of the major pathogen Fusarium graminearum, on breeding for resistance to WHS, and on methods for disease control. We hope that this review in English will provide scientists all over the world with information on WHS research in China, and will help build connections between scientists from China and other countries.
NCAUR Wheat Head
Scab research team - 1997. Author Chen is standing on the right
and author Desjardins is in the back row third from the right.
NCUAR
Wheat Head Scab research team - 1999. Author Bai is on the left
and author Desjardins is in the middle.
Acknowledgment
This review was supported by the National Agricultural Library-Plant Genome Data and Information Center, USDA, USA. The authors thank S. McCarthy for coordinating the project; Z-Q Hu, J-Q Wang, Y-L Song, F-M Dai, W-Z Lu, H-B Shi, Y-J Lu, G-L Jiang, Z-Q Ma, and G-J Yu for their assistance in literature search and collection; M-G Zhou for permission to cite his unpublished data; RD Plattner and D-J Liu for their critical comments on the review.
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