Species of grass
Dasypyrum villosum is a species of annual grass in the family Poaceae . It is native to eastern and southern Europe and Western Asia from the Balearic Islands to Turkmenistan , including in the Mediterranean and the Caucasus regions.[ 1]
Description
Culms are decumbent, with heights ranging from 25 to 70 cm. Racemes are single, oblong, bilateral, and 4–10 cm long; spikelets are oblong, laterally compressed, and 7–20 mm long.
Stem rust resistance
D. villosum has almost total immunity against Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici [ 2] [ 3] and carries Sr52 which offers some resistance against the Ug99 subrace of P.g. f.sp.t. .[ 2] [ 3] The genetic basis for this immunity is being introgressed into its close relative, wheat ,[ 2] [ 3] which is suffering from new races of this disease.
References
^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ a b c Qi, L. L.; Pumphrey, M. O.; Friebe, Bernd; Zhang, P.; Qian, C.; Bowden, R. L.; Rouse, M. N.; Jin, Y.; Gill, B. S. (2011-03-25). "A novel Robertsonian translocation event leads to transfer of a stem rust resistance gene (Sr52) effective against race Ug99 from Dasypyrum villosum into bread wheat". Theoretical and Applied Genetics . 123 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC : 159– 167. doi :10.1007/s00122-011-1574-z . ISSN 0040-5752 . PMID 21437597 . S2CID 16127468 .
^ a b c Ando, Kaori; Krishnan, Vandhana; Rynearson, Sheri; Rouse, Matthew N.; Danilova, Tatiana; Friebe, Bernd; See, Deven; Pumphrey, Michael O. (2019). "Introgression of a Novel Ug99-Effective Stem Rust Resistance Gene into Wheat and Development of Dasypyrum villosum Chromosome-Specific Markers via Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS)" . Plant Disease . 103 (6). American Phytopathological Society : 1068– 1074. doi :10.1094/pdis-05-18-0831-re . ISSN 0191-2917 . PMID 31063029 .
External links
Dasypyrum villosum Secale villosum