Osman S. Abdalla, ICARDA

1. Development of Stripe Rust Resistant Spring Bread Wheat Germplasm for CWANA: Achievements and Challenges The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) P.O. Box 5466 Aleppo Syria Presented by: Osman S. Abdalla

3. Prevalence of Rusts Diseases in CWANA Lr Yr, Lr Yr, Lr , Sr, Yr Yr Yr

7. ICARDA: East Africa SBW Shuttle Breeding P P = Planting H = Harvesting H P P P P Site Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Tel Hadya-Syria (Main Season) H Terbol - Lebanon (Off-season) H Debre Zeit - Ethiopia (Off-season) Kulumsa -Ethiopia (Main Season) H Njoro - Kenya (Main Season) H

10. Use of Spreader Rows

11. Use of Spreader Rows

12. Selection for Yellow Rust Resistance Susceptible Susceptible Resistant

13. Selection for Yellow Rust Resistance in Segregating Populations

14. Stem Rust (Ug99) and Yellow Rust Reaction of some ICARDA Elite Rust Resistant lines – T. Hadya, Syria 2009/2010 pbc ** = Pseudo-Black Chaff Source BIG INC-10 SR Njoro-Kenya Nov-2009 SR DZ - Eth Summer 2009 Seedling Reaction T-Hadya-2010 PLT No. NAME 2nd Date 2nd Date Sr (Ug99) IRAN Nov 2009 YR -SYR -2010 816 KBG-01 (CHECK) TR (pbc **) 5R 3+ 10 MR 908 HASHAB-2 5RMR tR 3 10 MR 913 SANOBAR-3 TR tR 3 20 M 919 REYNA-8 5R 5RMR 4 5 MR 856 USHER-18 10RMR 10R 3+ 15 MR 1001 NABUQ-6 10MRMS 10RMS 3 5 MR 871 MOUNA-1 5R tR 3+ 15 MR 963 SELMA-1 5SMS 10RMR 3 10 MR 964 FOURTEEN-1 10RMR 5MR 3 5 MR 874 FAISAL-1 TR 5R 4 10 MR 887 BATTELL-3 50MRMS 10RMS 3+ 10 MR 889 SANDALL-5 5R tR 3 5 MR 890 DAIRA-12 5R 5R 3 5 MR 891 NOUHA-1 5R 5RMR 3 10 MR 901 NADIA-20 TRMR tR 3+ 20 M 829 DIGELU (CHECK) 5R (pbc **) 5MR ;2 20 S 825 PAVON 76 (CHECK) 5R,5MR 10RMR 3+ 70 S

15. Yield of Ug99 Resistant Cultivars Relative to National Check under Rainfed ( 289 mm ) Environment at Tel-Hadya, Aleppo - Syria: CWANA 2nd Stem Rust Resistance Favorable/Irrigated SBWYT 2009/2010) Entry NAME/PEDIGREE Yield (kg/ha) Yield % N. Check YR -SYR -2010 123 SOONOT-10 3570 125 10 MR 113 SANOBAR-1 3536 124 10 MR 102 ICARDA-SRRL-5 3501 123 10 MR 121 CASA-1 3398 119 10 MR 115 REYNA-29 3312 116 5 MR 107 LALOUB-1 3277 115 5 MR 109 LALOUB-2 3266 115 5 MR 119 NABUQ-4 3176 112 5 MR 124 NATIONAL CHECK 2847 100 Yield Trial Mean (24 Entries) 3300 Range 3822 – 2847 Av SE = 133.017 CV% = 7.1

19. 1st Yellow Rust Conference, Tehran, Iran June 8-13, 2001 2 nd Yellow Rust Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 22-26, 2004 3 rd Yellow Rust Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 9-10, 2006 4 th Yellow Rust Conference, Antalya, Turkey, October 10-12, 2009 Regional Yellow Rust Conferences 2001 - 2010

26. Cereal Rusts Network

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