SEARCH FOR WHEAT
Resistance To Virus
Half of the 3000 odd wheats in the world collection of wheats held at the Crop Research Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lincoln are being sown early this autumn. This is being done in the hope that these wheats wUI be infested by aphiids carrying yellow dwarf virus and that one or more may prove to be resistant to the virus or may show a degree of tolerance to it. These varieties could then be used to breed resistance or tolerance into the country’s most useful wheats. Next season it is likely that the other half of the collection will also be sown early in the same cause. The senior cereal breeder, Mr L. G. Copp, is not too hopeful that this will bear fruit. The same sort of thing is being done elsewhere in the world using larger collections and so far no useful material has been found. With the use of growth chambers it would now be a matter of six or seven years before a virus resistant or tolerant Aotea could be produced after virus resistant or tolerant material had been found. Mr Copp said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 6
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199SEARCH FOR WHEAT Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 6
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