Breeding oat for resistance to the crown rust pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: achievements and prospects

Crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca), is a significant impediment to global oat production. Some 98 alleles at 92 loci conferring resistance to Pca in Avena have been designated; however, allelic relationships and chromosomal locations of many of these are unknown. Long-term monitoring of Pca in Australia, North America and elsewhere has shown that it is highly variable even in the absence of sexual recombination, likely due to large pathogen populations that cycle between wild oat communities and oat crops. Efforts to develop cultivars with genetic resistance to Pca began in the 1950s. Based almost solely on all all-stage resistance, this has had temporary benefits but very limited success. The inability to eradicate wild oats, and their common occurrence in many oat growing regions, means that future strategies to control Pca must be based on the assumption of a large and variable prevailing pathogen population with high evolutionary potential, even if cultivars with durable resistance are deployed and grown widely. The presence of minor gene, additive APR to Pca in hexaploid oat germplasm opens the possibility of pyramiding several such genes to give high levels of resistance. The recent availability of reference genomes for diploid and hexaploid oat will undoubtedly accelerate efforts to discover, characterise and develop high throughput diagnostic markers to introgress and pyramid resistance to Pca in high yielding adapted oat germplasm.Financial support from Judith and David Coffey and family, the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC: DAS00133, UOS1707-003RTX, UOS2104-001RTX) and the University of Sydney is gratefully acknowledged. Some of the unpublished research reported on was undertaken as part of a long running program on national cereal rust surveillance, conducted at the University of Sydney since 1921. EP is funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2019-104518RB-100], (AEI/FEDER, UE) and regional government through the AGR-253 group, the European Regional and Social Development Funds.Peer reviewe

Zróżnicowanie genetyczne dzikich i uprawnych form rumianku przy wykorzystaniu markerów ISSR

Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rausch. is a wide known herbal plant which has many medical attributes and find applications in pharmacy, nutritional and sanitary industries. Estimating genetic diversity in population is very important to protect variety of chamomile species. The objective of this study was characterization of chamomile germplasm using ISSR markers. Among 20 screened ISSR primers, only 5 produced polymorphic and repeatable fragments. In total primers produced 48 fragments out of which 41 (85.4%) were polymorphic. The average PIC value for the amplification products was 0.340. Based on ISSR markers the genetic similarity matrices were produced. The mean genetic similarity was calculated at 0.653. Present study demonstrated that ISSR markers provided a practical and effective method to evaluate the genetic similarity and relationships of chamomile genotypes. Analyzed chamomile genotypes were characterized by quite high genetic similarity; it suggested that there is necessity to find new sources of genetic diversity in chamomile in wild populations.Celem przeprowadzonych badań była charakterystyka genotypów rumianku wykorzystując markery ISSR. Spośród 20 testowanych starterów ISSR jedynie 5 inicjowało amplifikację polimorficznych i powtarzalnych produktów. Łącznie uzyskano 48 fragmentów, z których 41 (85,4%) było polimorficznych. średnia wartość PIC dla uzyskanych produktów amplifikacji wynosiła 0,340. Wykorzystując markery ISSR, utworzono matryce podobieństwa genetycznego. średnia wartość podobieństwa analizowanych genotypów wynosiła 0,653. Przeprowadzone badania potwierdzają przydatność metody ISSR do oceny podobieństwa genetycznego rumianku. Analizowane genotypy charakteryzowały się wysokim podobieństwem genetycznym, co wskazuje na konieczność poszukiwania nowych źródeł polimorfizmu wśród dzikich gatunków, w celu poszerzenia zmienności genetycznej uprawnych form rumianku

Analiza zróżnicowania genetycznego wśród genotypów Arnica montana L. za pomocą markerów RAPD

Arnica montana L. is one of the most important herbal plants used in medicine, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. The number of studies performed with molecular markers on arnica genotypes is very limited. Because of this fact the aims of presented examination were optimization of protocols DNA isolation from fresh leaves of A. montana and identification of genetic diversity among this plant genotypes. In presented study to obtain pure DNA Plant & Fungi DNA Purification Kit (EURx) were used. To clean obtained DNA long and slow electrophoresis and isolation DNA from gels were used. A. montana genotypes were analyzed using 40 RAPD primers (Operon Technologies), out of which 12 produced high number of polymorphic and repeatable fragments. In total, selected primers produced 120 fragments, among them 111 (92.5%) were polymorphic. The genetic similarity matrices were produced based on RAPD using the Dice’s coefficient. RAPD based genetic similarity was estimated between 0.535 and 0.945. The highest genetic similarity was estimated among GA17 and GA18 genotypes, which are closely located on the obtained dendrogramme.Arnica montana L. jest jedną z najcenniejszych roślin zielarskich wykorzystywanych w medycynie, farmacji i przemyśle kosmetycznym. W dostępnej literaturze liczba doniesień związanych z analizą molekularną arniki jest znikoma, dlatego też celem prezentowanych badań była optymalizacja procesu izolacji DNA ze świeżych liści oraz identyfikacja zróżnicowania genetycznego oparta na markerach RAPD. W prezentowanej pracy w celu uzyskania czystego DNA do izolacji wykorzystano zestaw DNA Plant & Fungi DNA Purification Kit (Euro) oraz oczyszczanie za pomocą długiej elektroforezy w żelu agarozowym. Spośród testowanych 40 starterów RPAD do analiz wybrano 12 generujących stabilne i polimorficzne wzory prążków. Wyselekcjonowane startery amplifikowały 120 fragmentów, spośród których 111 (92,5%) było polimorficznych. Wykorzystujac markery RAPD utworzono matryce podobieństwa genetycznego. średnia wartość podobieństwa analizowanych genotypów wynosiła 0.886. Najwyższy współczynnik podobieństwa genetycznego oszacowano pomiędzy genotypami GA17 i GA18, które ulokowały się blisko siebie na uzyskanym dendrogramie