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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 101, Issue 11, Pages 1941-1948Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-12-16-1784-RE
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria [PNBIO-1131042, 1131043]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica [PICT2011 1365]
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Sclerotinia head rot (SHR) is one of the most serious constraints to sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. var. macrocarpus) production worldwide. Here, we evaluated the response to SHR in a sunflower inbred panel from a large INTA germplasm collection, consisting of 137 inbred lines (ILs). Field trials were performed over five consecutive seasons using a twice replicated randomized complete-block design. Disease incidence, disease severity, incubation period, and area under disease progress curve for disease incidence and severity were determined after controlled inoculation with the pathogen. Statistical analysis using mixed-effect models detected significant differences among ILs for all variables (P < 0.001). In addition, principal component analysis (PCA) and distance-based methods were used to classify the ILs according to their response to SHR, with ILs ALB2/5261 and 5383 emerging as the most resistant. Broad-sense heritability estimates ranged from 20.64% for disease severity to 10.58% for incubation period. The ample phenotypic variability of our collection, along with the moderate heritability estimates, highlight the importance of molecular breeding approaches to gain new insights into the genetic basis of sunflower resistance to SHIM. The exhaustive phenotypic characterization presented here provides a reliable set of variables to comprehensively evaluate the disease and identifies two new sources of resistance to SHR.
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