Xue Li

Prof. Xue Li


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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6 February 2026 in Agronomy
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XBXin Bai
Xin Bai
XLXue Li
Xue Li
JWJie Liu Wang
Jie Liu Wang
XZXiaojun Zhang
Xiaojun Zhang
TCTianling Cheng
Tianling Cheng
XLXin Li
Xin Li
Wheat is among the most important staple crops worldwide; however, its yield and quality are severely threatened by stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst). CH806 is a Thinopyrum intermedium-derived resistant breeding line developed in our laboratory that is highly resistant to the prevalent Chinese Pst races CYR32, CYR33, and CYR34 in field trials. A genetic population was developed by crossing CH806 with the susceptible cultivar Chuanmai 24. Phenotypic evaluation of the progeny under field conditions revealed segregation for stripe rust resistance in the F2 generation. On the basis of the resistance phenotypes of the F2 and F2:3 populations, homozygous resistant and homozygous susceptible F2 individuals were selected to construct resistant and susceptible DNA bulks, respectively, for genotyping using the Wheat 120K SNP array. Bulked segregant analysis indicated that the most significant SNPs were predominantly clustered on chromosome 4A. Subsequently, publicly available simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers on chromosome 4A and newly developed SSR markers within the candidate region that were enriched for polymorphic SNPs were used for linkage analysis. The resistance locus, temporarily designated YrCH806, was mapped to an interval flanked by markers Xwmc48/Xwmc89 and SSR4A-60, with genetic distances of 4.4 cM and 2.5 cM, respectively, corresponding to a physical position of 515.8–574.7 Mb on the wheat reference genome. The closest flanking marker, SSR4A-60, was successfully converted into a Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) marker. This high-throughput marker was subsequently utilized to screen a panel of wheat germplasms for the distribution of YrCH806. This study provides a novel resistance source and associated molecular markers for improving stripe rust resistance in wheat breeding programs.