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Building on a foundation: advances in epidemiology, resistance breeding, and forecasting research for reducing the impact of fusarium head blight in wheat and barley

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Abstract Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a major fungal disease that contributes to severe economic losses for wheat and barley production in Canada and other parts of the world. Rapid… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a major fungal disease that contributes to severe economic losses for wheat and barley production in Canada and other parts of the world. Rapid developments in molecular biology over the past three decades have improved the ability to devise predictive management tools to combat the effects of the disease. Important aspects of Fusarium species in terms of the epidemiology associated with FHB in wheat and barley have been reported. The role of mycotoxin production in the epidemiology of the disease is beginning to receive much needed research attention. Evolutionary factors and the use of fungicides have resulted in more virulent forms of the FHB pathogens. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies, including whole genome sequencing (WGS), genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genotyping by sequencing (GBS) and RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) have facilitated the selection of resistant-breeding lines through marker-assisted selection. Many quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with moderate disease resistance have been identified in wheat and barley. Changes in weather conditions play an important role in FHB epidemics and dissemination, thus a systematic and long-term research approach is needed to provide effective forecasting and risk assessment models. This review discusses the history and epidemiology of FHB pathogens in wheat and barley at the global level, as well as potential plant defence mechanisms, the recent progress made in resistance breeding, and modern tools utilized in disease prediction. It also provides future directions for improving the management of the disease with these two important cereals.

Keywords: wheat barley; epidemiology; research; disease

Journal Title: Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology
Year Published: 2020

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