Abstract
The mostly susceptible wheat cvs to Fusarium head blight (FHB) mean serious food safety risk. Therefore the breeding of more resistant cultivars is the task of this project. A breeding program started in the early 80-ties will be continued with the help of the project. The methods of screening and resistance testing are evaluated, now the task is their massive use for breeding more resistant cultivars resisting also to toxin contamination. The quality screening will be solved by the new Dobraszczyk instrument. As a result, the release of new cultivars is planned and new candidates for state trials will be given. In the QTL analysis the significant improvement of the phenotyping is the task, as present methods are often not reliable. Without this the genotyping results can be questionable, too. The anti Fusarium effect of the trangenes aldose and ferritine reductases will also be tested. They are important is stress resistance, so an antifungal effect can be supposed. The organization of the production of the new cultivars with goof FHB resistance, resistance to other diseases with good or excellent quality will be also a highly important task of the project. Of course, the yielding ability will also be seriously considered.
Hungary