Abstract
A total of 186 accessions from six perennial wild species of Glycine [23 G. canescens F.J. Herm., 44 G. clandestina Wendl., 2 G. falcata Benth., 10 G. latifolia (Benth.) Newell and Hymowitz, 74 G. tabacina (Labill.) Benth., and 33 G. tomentella Hayata] and a soybean cultivar (G. max Williams) were evaluated for their reactions to Septoria glycines in the field after inoculation. Brown spot severity rated as the percentage of the total leaf area diseased ranged from 3 to 37.5% among the accessions at the R6 growth stage of Williams. Twenty-nine accessions with less than 3% severity were selected and evaluated in the greenhouse. Number and rate of formation of S. glycines pycnidia also were determined on infected leaves of these accessions. Four weeks after inoculation at V2-3 growth stages, brown spot severity ranged from 4 to 80% among the accessions, and the number of pycnidia on infected leaves after 7 days of incubation ranged from one to 75. Of 29 accessions, one of G. clandestina (PI 255745) and two of G. tabacina (PI 319697 and PI 321392) had less than 10% severity and fewer than five pycnidia per leaf (about 10 mm2), suggesting that these accessions can be useful as sources of resistance to S. glycines in intersubgeneric hybridizations with G. max.