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Article: Resistance in durum wheat sources to Hessian fly (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) populations in Eastern USA. (Plant Genetic Resources).(Statistical Data Included)
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- Crop Science
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- July 1, 2002
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DURUM WHEAT GERMPLASM, especially from the Mediterranean region, is an important source of genes for resistance to Hessian fly. Once Hessian fly resistance is identified in durum wheats, it seems prudent to test accessions for resistance to a number of fly biotypes or populations to identify those that are potentially useful in breeding resistant common wheat cultivars (Cambron et al., 1995). This approach has been utilized with Hessian fly biotypes (Patterson et al., 1994), but until recently not with Hessian fly populations representative of those found in the eastern USA.
During the 1990s, 87 Hessian fly populations from the eastern USA soft winter wheat ...