Current and future strategies in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses

Erskine, William; Tufail, Muhammad; Russell, A. C.; Tyagi, M. C.; Rahman, Mohammad Mizanur; Saxena, M. C.

doi:10.1007/bf00027189

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“…Many of these varieties, selected and cultivated under high input systems, cannot produce satisfactorily under a low input system such as organic agriculture. The main problem of those varieties under an organic system of cultivation is their confrontation with biotic and abiotic stresses (Erskine et al 1994;Lammerts van Bueren et al 2002). Therefore, breeders should pay more attention and develop specific cultivars adapted to the agronomic conditions prevailing on organic farms and complying with the philosophy of organic agriculture (Lammerts van Bueren et al 2003).…”

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Response to conventional and organic environment of thirty-six lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) varieties

Vlachostergios

Roupakias

2008

Euphytica

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Thirty-six lentil varieties were evaluated under organic and conventional environment for three consecutive years in order to see whether the promising genetic material for an organic plant breeding program are different from those of a conventional system. The genetic material studied originated from various countries. In the conventional trial plots standard cultural practices (P mineral fertilization & pest control) were applied throughout the growing season, while in the organic ones no fertilizers or pest agrochemicals were applied. Significant regression, but of low value, between grain yield ranking and earliness or harvest index ranking was detected. Combined ANOVA indicated significant differences between genotypes, years, environments and genotype 9 environmental interactions (GEI). It was observed that under conventional management most of the genotypes had a higher yield compared to the organic one. The mean grain yield ranking of the genotypes in each of the environments revealed that some of the genotypes occupied the same ranking position at both the organic and the conventional environment (non-crossover GEI), while others exhibited a significant alteration in their ranking (crossover GEI) under the two environments. Crossover GEI and non-cross over GEI revealed two types of lentil varieties. Varieties with specific adaptation and varieties with broad adaptation. It was concluded that grain yield was in general higher when lentil varieties were grown under a conventional environment compared to the grain yield produced under an organic environment. Yet, there are lentil genotypes with a higher yielding ability under the organic management and therefore should be targeted by the breeder.

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Response to conventional and organic environment of thirty-six lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) varieties

Vlachostergios

Roupakias

2008

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“…Genetic variability for resistance to foliar ascochyta blight in lentil has been reported from Argentina (Khare et al, 1993;Erskine et al, 1994), Syria (Erskine & Saxena, 1993;Khare et al, 1993;Erskine et al, 1994), Pakistan (Iqbal et al, 1990;Hussain et al, 2000), India (Singh et al, 1982;Kapoor et al, 1990;Sugha et al, 1991), Ethiopia (Ahmed & Beniwal, 1991) and Australia (Nasir & Bretag, 1998). A high level of foliar resistance has also been identified in the wild Lens species culinaris ssp.…”

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“…Cultivars reported with resistance to A. lentis include Manserha 89 in Pakistan (Erskine & Saxena, 1993;Erskine et al, 1994), Pant L4 (Singh et al, 1994) and Masoor 93 (Tufail et al, 1995) in India, Rajah (ILL 6343) in New Zealand (Russell, 1994) and CDC Milestone, CDC Glamis, CDC Grandora, CDC Sovereign, CDC Vantage and CDC Robin in Canada (Vandenberg et al, , 2002a. In Australia Northfield (ILL5588) is the only current commercial cultivar with resistance to both foliar and seed infection by A. lentis (Ali, 1995).…”

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Screening techniques and sources of resistance to foliar diseases caused by major necrotrophic fungi in grain legumes

Tivoli¹,

Baranger²,

Ávila

et al. 2006

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Necrotrophic pathogens of the cool season food legumes (pea, lentil, chickpea, faba bean and lupin) cause wide spread disease and severe crop losses throughout the world. Environmental conditions play an important role in the development and spread of these diseases. Form of inoculum, inoculum concentration and physiological plant growth stage all affect the degree of infection and the amount of crop loss. Measures to control these diseases have relied on identification of resistant germplasm and development of resistant varieties through screening in the field and in controlled environments. Procedures for screening and scoring germplasm and breeding lines for resistance have lacked uniformity among the various programs worldwide. However, this review highlights the most consistent screening and scoring procedures that are simple to use and provide reliable results. Sources of resistance to the major necrotrophic fungi are summarized for each of the cool season food legumes. Marker-assisted selection is underway for Ascochyta blight of pea, lentil and chickpea, and Phomopsis blight of lupin. Other measures such as fungicidal control and cultural control are also reviewed. The emerging genomic information on the model legume, Medicago truncatula, which has various degrees of genetic synteny with the cool season food legumes, has promise for identification of closely linked markers for resistance genes and possibly for eventual map-based cloning of resistance genes. Durable resistance to the necrotrophic pathogens is a common goal of cool season food legume breeders.

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“…The work on the re-introduction of lentil into Serbian agriculture follows the same criteria as the global strategy (Erskine et al 1993). Preliminary research provides a sufficient basis for further action, mainly in the domains of genetic resources and breeding for diverse purposes ), including screening for winter hardiness.…”

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Achievements in breeding autumn-sown annual legumes for temperate regions with emphasis on the continental Balkans

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Annual legumes represent one of the basic elements of the agriculture of Serbia. Until recently, only annual forage legumes such as pea or vetches were autumn-sown in Serbia and other neighbouring regions of the continental Balkan Peninsula. During the last decade, the first crucial steps in the development of autumn-sown grain legumes were made, with emphasis on dry pea, faba bean and dual-purpose vetches. The winter forage pea cultivars developed in Serbia are generally characterised by prominent winter hardiness and a rather extended growing season, usually beginning with sowing in early October and ending either by cutting for forage production in late May or harvesting seeds in mid-July. One of the strategic advantages of recently released cultivars of autumn-sown dry pea is their significantly improved earliness. The Serbian winter dry pea cultivar Mraz, newly registered in Serbia and developed from hybrids between French and Serbian autumn-hardy materials, is regularly at least a week earlier than winter barley, so many farmers will not have to choose between pea and cereals due to limited harvesting resources. The initial material for pre-breeding autumn-sown faba bean in the conditions of Serbia consisted of both collected local landraces of Serbia and populations from France and Germany. The preliminary results of their agronomic performance showed that they have a great potential for high grain yield in the conditions of Serbia. Promising results in breeding winter hardy cultivars were achieved with several vetch species, as well as with lentil and grass pea, and will be continued with more species including Medicago truncatula.

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Current and future strategies in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses

Cited by 105 publications

References 17 publications

Response to conventional and organic environment of thirty-six lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) varieties

Response to conventional and organic environment of thirty-six lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) varieties

Screening techniques and sources of resistance to foliar diseases caused by major necrotrophic fungi in grain legumes

Achievements in breeding autumn-sown annual legumes for temperate regions with emphasis on the continental Balkans

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