IMPROVEMENT OF SOFT WINTER WHEAT THAT IS RESISTANT TO FHB AND ADAPTED TO INDIANA

Project Title 1 - Improvement of Soft Winter Wheat that is Resistant to FHB and Adapted to Indiana: 1) develop adapted soft winter wheat cultivars that have low-FHB incidence, type I and/or type II resistance, low DON, and resistance to other important diseases, 2) phenotype wheat lines in regional nurseries and lines in Purdue performance nurseries for FHB resistance, and genotype parent lines for combinations of FHB resistance QTLs, 3) conduct prebreeding/genetic analysis of FHB resistance from Th. ponticum, and phenotype FHB type I and type II resistance of closely-related lines in winter wheat backgrounds that have combinations of FHB resistance QTL, determined by associated marker genotyping. Project Title 2 - Mapping Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Truman Wheat: We will try to achieve natural infection (seeded in disced corn residue in the misted area).