Abstract
The main task of the project is to develop an application-oriented innovation network which would incorporate areas of applied molecular genetics, plant breeding and crop production, and results achieved in the frame of this network could contribute to developing of the sustainable agriculture. The main aim of the project is to breed winter wheat varieties and cultivars resistant to necrotrophic pathogens, while the aim of the basic research is to examine the genetic variability and population structure of fungal pathogens causing leaf spots. Identification of known resistance genes is foreseen, highly resistant materials without known gene(s) will be subject of developing DH populations to map the QTLs and develop markers for the resistance breeding program. By using marker-assisted selection for major genes or QTLs, wheat cultivars and lines resistant to Micosphaerella graminicola and Blumeria graminis could be identified. The market position and competitiveness of resistant cultivars developed will be superior to those which are susceptible, therefore their cultivation is less economic, more fungicides will be used and also the environment can be polluted.
Hungary