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Vector Relations

Control of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus with Vector Resistance in Wheat. T. J. Martin, Wheat breeder, Fort Hays Branch, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Hays 67601; T. L. Harvey(2), C. G. Bender(3), and D. L. Seifers(4). (2)(3)(4)Entomologist, and plant pathologists, respectively, Fort Hays Branch, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Hays 67601, (3)Current address: Dept. of Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings 57007. Phytopathology 74:963-964. Accepted for publication 14 March 1984. Copyright 1984 The American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-74-963.

Resistance to the wheat curl mite (WCM), Eriophyes tulipae, derived from cultivar Salmon wheat, reduced the incidence of wheat streak mosaic by 58% in naturally infested wheat nurseries in 1979, 1981, and 1982. The transmission of wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) to WCM-resistant KS80H4200 was reduced by 74% compared to WCM-susceptible cultivar Sage in greenhouse seedling tests. Reduced transmission of WSMV to WCM-resistant cultivars coupled with WCM control in WCM-resistant volunteer wheat should give effective levels of WSM control.