BARLEYNONHOST

GENETICS BASIS OF THE NONHOST RESISTANCE TO POWDERY MILDEWS AND RUSTS IN BARLEY

Coordinatore	WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 city: WAGENINGEN postcode: 6708 PB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rients Cognome: Niks Email: send email Telefono: +31 317 482508 Fax: +31 317 418094
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Netherlands [NL]
Totale costo	183˙805 €
EC contributo	183˙805 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-05-01   -   2014-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 city: WAGENINGEN postcode: 6708 PB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rients Cognome: Niks Email: send email Telefono: +31 317 482508 Fax: +31 317 418094	NL (WAGENINGEN)	coordinator	183˙805.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Full nonhost resistance can be defined as immunity displayed by an entire plant species against all genotypes of a plant pathogen. The genetic basis of (non)host-status of plants is hard to study, since identification of the responsible genes would require interspecific crosses that suffer from sterility and abnormal segregation. There are some plant/potential pathogen combinations where only 10% or less of the accessions are at most moderately susceptible. These may be regarded as marginal host or near-nonhost, and can provide insights into the genes that determine if a plant species is a host or a nonhost to a would-be pathogen, and to investigate the genetics of the host-status to specialized pathogens.

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is an example of a near-nonhost to several rusts (Puccinia) and powdery mildews (Blumeria graminis) of cereals and grasses. The research group of Dr. RE Niks has accumulated susceptibility to different heterologous rusts and powdery mildews in several lines. These lines and fully resistant accessions have been used to develop mapping populations which are the starting point material of the present study. In particular, the project aims to enhance the knowledge on the genetic basis of the resistance at the species level (nonhost resistance) to rusts and powdery mildews in barley. These systems are being used as models to gain more insight in the nonhost resistance phenomenon to understand its genetic basis. This research is unique in its approach and will add new scientific insights, complementary to the nonhost research elsewhere. These scientific advances are of great interest because they allow understanding which genes are involved in natural variation between plant species in (non) host status to specialized biotroph pathogens. This knowledge will help to address one of the phenomena that are still poorly understood in Plant Biology and may lead to improved strategies to apply durable forms of disease resistance in breeding programs'