Mapping and Accelerated Introgression of FHB Resistance into Superior Wheat and Barley Varieties

Project 1 - Variety Development, Selection, and Characterization of Resistance to FHB and DON in Winter Barley: Provide growers and end users with superior feed and malt barley cultivars that are adapted to the eastern U.S. and have high yields, desirable quality, and disease resistance especially to FHB. Project 2 - Improving FHB Resistance in SRW Wheat via Integrated Mapping, Phenotypic and MAS: Extensive and collaborative phenotypic and genotypic characterization of FHB resistance in elite breeding lines, commercial cultivars, and mapping populations is needed to generate reliable information on the type, effectiveness and diversity of FHB resistance, and to facilitate marker assisted selection (MAS) and pyramiding of complementary FHB resistance genes. Project 3 - Developing Doubled Haploids to Expedite Variety Development in SRWW: Develop cultivars and readily available superior parental lines having gene Fhb1 and other validated QTL derived from exotic and native resistance sources.