본 연구는 농촌진흥청 국립원예특작과학원 채소과에서 육성 중인 고추 34계통과 세계채소센터 육성 계통과 자원 12점 등 총 46점의 고추를 공시하여, 종자의 발아율, 수량 및 상품과율, 그리고 화분발아율을 조사하여 내서성이 강한 고추 자원을 선발하기 위하여 수행되었다. 1. 종자발아율 비교에서 여름종자는 가을종자 대비 상대적인 피해율은 4.3~100% 범위였고, H42(1.6%), H16(5.0%), H14(6.3%), H02(12.4%), H44(13.7%), H12(15.9%), H03 (17.6%), H17(23.4%) 순으로 대조 계통인 H37(26.2%)에 비해 피해율이 낮았다. 2. 고추 과실의 수량은 34.4~446.5g, 총 과실수는 2.0~134.3 개를 나타냈다. 상품과 비율에 있어서 75% 이상은 H22(95.0%), H16(89.1%), H37(88.4%), H40(86.4%), H6 (86.0), H27(83.7%), H04(83.6%), H03(82.6%), H08(81.1%), H44(81.4%), H02(80.0%), H45(79.1%), H17(78.7%), H19 (77.7%), H34(77.0%), H15(76.9%), H42(76.3%) 순으로 나타 났다. 3. 고온 처리에 의한 화분발아율의 피해율은 H06(59.5%), H14(74.4%), H44(85.3%), H03(90.2%)가 대조구인 H37 (94.7%)과 나머지 다른 고추에 비해 상대적으로 낮았다. 이상의 결과, 가을종자 대비 여름종자 종자발아율의 피해율, 수량 및 상품과율, 그리고 고온 처리에 의한 화분발아율 등을 고려하여, H03, H04, H06, H14, H17, H22, H44, H45 계 통을 내서성이 높은 자원으로 선발하였다.

Pre- and postharvest anthracnose fruit rot is a serious disease of hot peppers (Capsicum annuum) throughout the world. AVRDC has pursued breeding for resistance to anthracnose for more than 10 years and has distributed a number of resistant lines in Asia and Africa. Recently AVRDC has identified highly aggressive isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum that have prompted renewed efforts to identify new anthracnose resistance genes. This study aimed to characterize resistance to specific pathogen strains in an array of newly identified breeding lines, and to validate one simple sequence repeat (SSR) and two sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers linked to the anthracnose resistance locus. Forty-four accessions and two populations (two resistant parents and one susceptible parent, to F1, four backcross populations, and two F2 populations) are currently (Spring 2012) being screened against two pathotypes of C. acutatum collected in Taiwan. Pepper entries include C. annuum, C. baccatum, C. chinense, and their inter-specific progenies. Screening methods include field screening, spray and microinjection assays on green and red-ripe fruits, and molecular assays using SSR and SCAR markers linked to anthracnose resistance. Progress will be shared on initial screening results, evaluation of horticultural characteristics, and selection of potential lines for crossing programs.

Peppers (Capsicum spp.) with pungent (chili, hot pepper) and non-pungent (sweet pepper, bell pepper, paprika, capsicum) fruits are important spice and vegetable crops worldwide, especially in many developing countries of Asia and Africa. Among the five cultivated species of the genus Capsicum, C. annuum L. var. annuum is the most widely cultivated; over the past 25 years, AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center has focused on improving this commonly grown species. Other domesticated species also have been used as resistance sources against biotic stresses in breeding programs to improve C. annuum (for example, C. chinense and C. baccatum resistant to anthracnose). The major focus of the Center’s pepper breeding activities has been to identify and use host plant resistance to many biotic stresses, including viral (Cucumber mosaic virus, Chili veinal mottle virus, Potato virus Y, Tomato mosaic virus, geminiviruses), fungal (Phytophthora wilt, anthracnose, mildews) and bacterial (bacterial wilt, bacterial spot) diseases. The Center disseminates seeds of improved lines to cooperators in developing countries (usually public and private sector breeders), who make use of the germplasm in various ways: (i) direct release of supplied breeding lines as varieties through national varietal release procedures, (ii) reselection among the supplied populations according to local trait preferences and subsequent release as new varieties, (iii) use of supplied materials (possibly after further selection) as parental lines in hybrid breeding, and (iv) use in crosses in breeding programs. Examples from these categories will be presented.