Coordinating Organic Plant Breeding Activities for Diversity - Resistance to Dwarf Bunt

In the project part SMART breeding we will further develop genetic markers for resistance to dwarf bunt, evaluate genotypes and develop SMART breeding tools for efficient and durable resistance to dwarf and in coordination with other project partners also to common bunt in winter wheat. Using closely linked molecular DNA markers identified in COBRA, marker assisted breeding will become feasible to introgress the highly relevant trait dwarf bunt resistance into high quality and agronomically well adapted cultivars in relatively short time and at comparatively low cost.