Jemanesh K Haile, Demissew Sertse, Amidou N'Diaye, Valentyna Klymiuk, Krystalee Wiebe, Yuefeng Ruan, Harmeet S Chawla, Maria-Antonia Henriquez, Lipu Wang, Hadley R Kutcher, Barbara Steiner, Hermann Buerstmayr, Curtis J Pozniak
Durum wheat is more susceptible to Fusarium head blight (FHB) than other types or classes of wheat. The disease is one of the most devastating in wheat; it reduces yield and end-use quality and contaminates the grain with fungal mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (DON). A panel of 265 Canadian and European durum wheat cultivars, as well as breeding and experimental lines, were tested in artificially inoculated field environments (2019-2022, inclusive) and two greenhouse trials (2019 and 2020). The trials were assessed for FHB severity and incidence, visual rating index, Fusarium -damaged kernels, DON accumulation, anthesis or heading date, maturity date, and plant height...
2023: Frontiers in Plant Science