Fingerprinting of Pakistan wheat germplasms for stripe rust resistance

The objective of this book is to provide in a brief and practical manner, information on stripe rust which is an important disease in many wheat-growing regions of the world. Wheat production in Pakistan is seriously constrained due to rust diseases and stripe rust (yellow) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, which could limit yields.The current information demonstrates evaluation and characterization of Pakistan wheat germplasms for stripe rust resistance and determining the diversity of the germplasms using molecular markers.The resistant germplasms identified with 22 RGAP markers should be useful in developing new wheat cultivars with stripe rust resistance.