Novel Sources of Witchweed (Striga) Resistance from Wild Sorghum Accessions

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dc.contributor.authorMbuvi, Dorothy A.
dc.contributor.authorMasiga, Clet W.
dc.contributor.authorKuria, Eric
dc.contributor.authorMasanga, Joel
dc.contributor.authorWamalwa, Mark
dc.contributor.authorMohamed, Abdallah
dc.contributor.authorOdeny, Damaris A.
dc.contributor.authorHamza, Nada
dc.contributor.authorTimko, Michael P.
dc.contributor.authorRuno, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-29T21:05:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-29T21:05:33Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractSorghum is a major food staple in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but its production is constrained by the parasitic plant Striga that attaches to the roots of many cereals crops and causes severe stunting and loss of yield. Away from cultivated farmland, wild sorghum accessions grow as weedy plants and have shown remarkable immunity to Striga. We sought to determine the extent of the resistance to Striga in wild sorghum plants. Our screening strategy involved controlled laboratory assays of rhizotrons, where we artificially infected sorghum with Striga, as well as field experiments at three sites, where we grew sorghum with a natural Striga infestation. We tested the resistance response of seven accessions of wild sorghum of the aethiopicum, drummondii, and arundinaceum races against N13, which is a cultivated Striga resistant landrace. The susceptible control was farmer-preferred variety, Ochuti. From the laboratory experiments, we found three wild sorghum accessions (WSA-1, WSE-1, and WSA-2) that had significantly higher resistance than N13. These accessions had the lowest Striga biomass and the fewest and smallest Striga attached to them. Further microscopic and histological analysis of attached Striga haustorium showed that wild sorghum accessions hindered the ingression of Striga haustorium into the host endodermis. In one of the resistant accessions (WSE-1), host and parasite interaction led to the accumulation of large amounts of secondary metabolites that formed a dark coloration at the interphase. Field experiments confirmed the laboratory screening experiments in that these same accessions were found to have resistance against Striga. In the field, wild sorghum had low Area under the Striga Number Progressive curve (AUSNPC), which measures emergence of Striga from a host over time. We concluded that wild sorghum accessions are an important reservoir for Striga resistance that could be used to expand the genetic basis of cultivated sorghum for resistance to the parasite.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMbuvi DA,MasigaCW,KuriaE, Masanga J,WamalwaM, MohamedA,OdenyDA,HamzaN, TimkoMPandRunoS(2017)Novel Sources ofWitchweed(Striga) Resistance fromWildSorghum Accessions. Front.PlantSci.8:116. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00116en_US
dc.identifier.other10.3389/fpls.2017.00116
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/4485
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers in Plant Scienceen_US
dc.subjectStriga resistanceen_US
dc.subjectWitchweeden_US
dc.subjectSorghumen_US
dc.subjectWild sorghum relativesen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa Nomenclatureen_US
dc.subjectStriga hermonthicabenthen_US
dc.subjectWitchweeden_US
dc.subjectSorghumbicoloren_US
dc.titleNovel Sources of Witchweed (Striga) Resistance from Wild Sorghum Accessionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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