Registration of Common Bacterial Blight, Rust and Bean Common Mosaic Resistant Great Northern Common Bean Germplasm Line ABC-Weihing

Authors

N. Mutlu, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Carlos A. Urrea, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Phillip N. Miklas, USDA-ARSFollow
M. A. Pastor-Corrales, USDA-ARSFollow
James R. Steadman, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Dale T. Lindgren, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
J. Reiser, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Anne K. Vidaver, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D. P. Coyne, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1-2008

Citation

Published in the Journal of Plant Registrations 2:53–55 (2008). doi: 10.3198/jpr2007.04.0197crc.

Comments

U.S. government work.

Abstract

Great northern common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) germplasm line ABC-Weihing (Reg. No. GP-246, PI 647964) was developed by the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division in cooperation with USDA-ARS and released in 2006. This line, tested as NE1-05-4, was bred specifically for enhanced resistance to common bacterial blight (CBB), a major seed borne disease of common bean caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli (Smith) Dye (Xcp). ABC-Weihing is a great northern BC₅F_3:6 line obtained from five backcrosses (‘Weihing’*5//‘Chase’/XAN 159). The first cross was made in spring 1997. Only BC_nF₁ plants resistant to Xcp isolates Dominican Republic DR-7 and Nebraska SC4A, as determined by multiple needle leaf inoculation tests in the greenhouse, were used for successive backcrossing. In addition to phenotypic selection for CBB resistance, marker-assisted selection for the resistant QTLlinked marker SU91 was conducted in the BC₁F₁, BC₂F₁, and ABC-Weihing. When inoculated with Nebraska Xcp strains in the field, ABC-Weihing exhibited resistance in both 2005 and 2006. ABC-Weihing has Ur-3 and Ur-6 genes for resistance to common bean rust and carries the single dominant hypersensitive I gene that provides resistance to all non-necrotic strains of the Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV). ABC-Weihing has bright white seed, blooms 45 d after planting, and is a midseason bean maturing 92 d after planting.