Dissertation
CHARACTERIZING SOURCES OF RESISTANCE TO PRE-EMERGENCE DAMPING-OFF DISEASE CAUSED BY METALAXYL RESISTANT PYTHIUM ULTIMUM
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005484
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118954
Abstract
Seed rot and seed damping-off disease caused by Pythium ultimum is an important disease of chickpea in the Pacific Northwest, U.S., and other regions of the world. The disease is managed principally by the application of fungicides such as metalaxyl. However, reliance on metalaxyl has caused an increase in resistance in multiple P. ultimum populations. The sources of resistance to metalaxyl-resistant P. ultimum were identified using 39-accessions of a ‘mini-core’ collection from the U.S.A. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) and 209 accessions from a chickpea mini-core collection developed by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Resistance was evaluated based on the emergence of chickpea seedlings from soil artificially infested with the pathogen. The study identified higher resistance in Desi accessions as compared to Kabuli accessions. Based on the consistent resistant reactions to P. ultimum and higher 100-seed weight, Kabuli accession PI360189, PI450911, W6 25882 and W6 25884, may be used as parental materials for improving Kabuli cultivars. To identify genomic regions for Pythium disease resistance, a panel of 209 mini-core collections of chickpea accessions obtained from ICRISAT and 177 chickpea recombinant inbred lines derived from a set of an interspecific cross between C. reticulatum x C. arietinum (CRIL-7: PI 599072 x FLIP 84-92C)] were used. Overall, two QTLs, “q4-1” on LG4 with 41.8 % of the phenotypic variation, “q8-1” on LG8 with 4.5% of the variance and seven candidate genes were detected using QTL mapping. In addition, nine significant SNPs and seven candidate genes were detected by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Using marker-assisted breeding, the QTLs and candidate genes identified in this study could be incorporated into chickpea breeding programs to improve resistance to seed rot and pre-emergence damping-off caused by metalaxyl-resistant P. ultimum as well as metalaxyl-resistant.
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- Title
- CHARACTERIZING SOURCES OF RESISTANCE TO PRE-EMERGENCE DAMPING-OFF DISEASE CAUSED BY METALAXYL RESISTANT PYTHIUM ULTIMUM
- Creators
- Chiti Agarwal
- Contributors
- George Vandemark (Advisor)Lynne Alane Carpenter-Boggs (Committee Member)Weidong Chen (Committee Member)Hanu Pappu (Committee Member)Kiwamu Tanaka (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Plant Pathology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 187
- Identifiers
- 99900592158101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation