New donors of sunflower resistance to broom-rape race G: studying of a trait inheritance

A parasitic plant broomrape Orobanche cumana Wallr. is one of the limiting factor in sunflower production. The most effective method of control is genetic resistance of breeding germplasm. A team of authors developed lines resistant to broomrape races of high virulence, including G, which were not studied for this trait inheritance. So the purpose of this work was to study inheritance of resistance to broomrape race G in new sunflower lines-donors F1. As a material for research we used five resistant lines-donors and susceptible to the parasite lines of VNIIMK's breeding. We estimated resistance in plots infected with broomrape race G by the Panchenko's method. While studying inheritance of the trait in the new donors of sunflower we did reciprocal crosses of these lines with susceptible sunflower forms. We obtained from seven to nine cross-combinations per each resistant line, one-two families per each hybrid. We estimated ten plants from each family. Almost all obtained hybrids had low degree of broomrape infection, it was independent on a genotype of susceptible or resistant parental line and a line used as a maternal one...