AJCS 6(8):1283-1289 (2012) ISSN:1835-2707
A ccumulation of desirable alleles for southern leaf blight (SL B) in maize ( Zea mays L .) under the epiphytotic of Helminthosporium maydis F arhan A li *1,2, M areeya M uneer 3, Jie X u4, Dur rishahwar*5, H idayat ur Rahman3, Y anli L u 4, W aseem H assan 6, H idayat Ullah 5, M uhammad Noor 3, Iltaf Ullah 1, Jianbing Y an2 1
C ereal C rops Research Institute, Pirsabak, Nowshera, K hyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Pakistan National key laboratory of C rop Improvement and Genetics, H uazhong Agricultural University, W uhan C hina 3 Department of Plant B reeding and Genetics, K hyber Pukhtoonkhwa Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan 4 M aize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, W enjiang 611130, Sichuan, C hina 5 F aculty of Agriculture, A bdul W ali K han University, M ardan Pakistan 6 College of Resources and E nvironment, H uazhong Agricultural University, W uhan 430070, C hina 2
T he authors contributed equally to this wor k. *Cor responding author:
[email protected]; yashma kbreeder @gmail.com A bstract To accumulate desirable alleles for southern leaf blight (SLB) resistance and for grain yield, 76 inbred lines were evaluated under the epiphytotic of Helminthosporium maydis. Highly significant differences (P
