Development of High Yielding Fusarium Wilt Resistant Cultivar by Pyramiding of "Genes" Through Marker-Assisted Backcrossing in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).

ABSTRACT: Pusa 391, a mega desi chickpea variety with medium maturity duration is extensively cultivated in the Central Zone of India. Of late, this variety has become susceptible to Fusarium wilt (FW), which has drastic impact on its yield. Presence of variability in the wilt causing pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceri (foc) across geographical locations necessitates the role of pyramiding for FW resistance for different races (foc 1,2,3,4 and 5). Subsequently, the introgression lines developed in Pusa 391 genetic background were subjected to foreground selection using three SSR markers (GA16, TA 27 and TA 96) while 48 SSR markers uniformly distributed on all chromosomes, were used for background selection to observe the recovery of recurrent parent genome (

SUBMITTER: Bharadwaj C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9388742 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature