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Effect of two-component cultivar mixtures on development of wheat yellow rust disease in the field and greenhouse in the Nepal Himalayas

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Wheat yellow rust (WYR), caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST), is a major disease of wheat, and deployment of a single cultivar often leads to disease epidemics. Effect of inoculum level, foliar fungicide spray, and wheat cultivar mixtures were evaluated on disease development in the field and greenhouse in Nepal. Treatments were arranged in a split–split plot design with three replications in both experiments. Two inoculum levels of PST (low and high) were main plot factors; nontreated control and foliar spray of fungicides (Mancozeb and Bayleton) were subplot factors; and two-component cultivar mixtures, composed of different ratios of a susceptible (S) and a resistant (R) cultivars (90:10, 80:20, and 50:50, 100:0, and 0:100) were sub–subplot factors. WYR severity was assessed at different time intervals, and disease development was calculated as area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC). Inoculum level did not cause significant differences in AUDPC in the field but did in the greenhouse. Foliar spray of fungicides reduced the AUDPC in the greenhouse and field. In both experiments, AUDPC values were low in cultivar mixtures compared with a pure stand of a susceptible cultivar. As the proportion of resistant cultivar increased compared with the susceptible cultivar in the S:R mixture component, disease severity decreased with a consequent increase in grain yield. The greater yield obtained with cultivar mixtures compared with only the susceptible cultivar, independent of inoculum level and fungicide spray in the field, revealed a promising strategy to manage WYR in Nepal.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Bhim Chaulagain

  2. Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Rampur, Nepal

    Gopal Bahadur Khatri Chhetri & Sundar Man Shrestha

  3. Nepal Agriculture Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Sarala Sharma

  4. Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, OR, USA

    Dipak Sharma-Poudyal

  5. Eco-Innov Research Unit, INRA, 78850, Thiverval-Grignon, France

    Jay Ram Lamichhane

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Chaulagain, B., Chhetri, G.B.K., Shrestha, S.M. et al. Effect of two-component cultivar mixtures on development of wheat yellow rust disease in the field and greenhouse in the Nepal Himalayas. J Gen Plant Pathol 83, 131–139 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-017-0705-z

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