Disease Resistance in Wheat

Dr. Indu Sharma is currently the Project Director, Directorate of Wheat Research at Karnal, India managing the overall research and administrative activities of All India Coordinated Wheat and Barley Improvement Project. She had worked for more than 31 years on wheat specially on resistance to diseases. She was involved with 29 varieties including bread wheat, durum wheat, triticale and barley released for cultivation from the wheat material screened for Karnal bunt, rust, loose smut and barley for covered smut, loose smut. She had been creating artificial epiphytotics of the diseases in the breeding materials and also advanced varietal trial lines, conducting survey and surveillance to monitor status of pre- and post- harvest crop / grain health and transfer of technology to the farmers for managing diseases / pests and enhancing wheat production strategies. Dr. Sharma visited several countries (Mexico. She also visited China, Mexico, USA, Nepal, Kenya, Czech Republic & Russia, Syria, France Switzerland and Australia) under projects / presenting invited lectures & papers in seminars and conferences / under different collaborative projects with India / to impart training / to learn.

• 1: Diseases in Wheat Crops - An Introduction 2: Stem Rust 3: Wheat Leaf Rust 4: Resistance to Stripe Rust in Wheat: Pathogen Biology Driving Resistance Breeding 5: Wheat Powdery Mildew 6: Wheat Resistance to Spot Blotch or Foliar Blight 7: Resistance Breeding for Tan Spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis) of Wheat 8: Resistance in Wheat to Septoria Diseases Caused by Mycosphaerella graminicola (Septoria tritici) and Phaeosphaeria (Stagonospora) nodorum 9: Resistance in Wheat to Loose Smut 10: Resistance in Wheat to Karnal Bunt 11: Common Bunt of Wheat: an Old Foe Remains a Current Threat 12: Resistance to Head Blight Caused by Fusarium spp. in Wheat 13: Resistance of Wheat to Viral Diseases 14: Flag Smut of Wheat: Pathogen Biology and Host Resistance 15: Resistance in Wheat to Nematode Diseases