Table 2.  Field responses of durum wheat (DW) and bread wheat (BW) lines to leaf rust 

Crop season

Wheat species

 (Total lines)

Percentage of total lines

Resistant

%

lines

  MS

Percent of total lines

Susceptible

   F            R          MR           X

<5S       5S - 30S       >30S

1999-2000

 DW (211)

22.7

15.2

48.8

0.0

  7.6

0.5

  3.8

  1.4

 BW (1151)

46.3

  4.9

17.2

0.1

  5.8

4.0

17.4

  4.2

1998-99

 DW  (232)

  5.2

12.9

65.6

0.4

12.1

1.7

  1.7

  0.4

 BW  (1138)

20.6

11.5

28.8

0.5

14.3

4.9

14.6

  4.8

1997-98

 DW  (216)

27.9

  6.0

23.1

1.4

22.2

4.6

  9.7

  5.1

 BW  (1001)

29.2

  6.1

12.9

0.2

20.1

5.5

17.3

  8.7

1996-97

 DW  (185)

0.0

  2.7

62.1

0.0

15.7

6.5

  9.2

  3.8

 BW  (1139)

0.6

12.4

36.1

0.0

  8.0

8.2

24.2

10.5

(Total No. of lines)

Means of four crop seasons

 DW  (844)

13.9

  9.2

 49.9

 0.4

14.4

3.3

  6.1

  2.7

 BW  (4429)

24.2

  8.7

 23.7

 0.2

12.0

5.6

18.4

  7.0

Footnotes : Same as given under Table 1