“…However, among the Triticeae, the perennial genera, Secale cereale, Agropyron elongatum, Agropyron intermedium and other Agropyron species have been found resistant to either the virus, vector or both (McKinney & Sando, 1951;Somsen & Still, 1970;Martin et al, 1976;Sharma et al, 1984;Stoddard et al, 1987aStoddard et al, , 1987b. Genes for resistance to WSMV have been transferred from Agropyron intermedium (Lay et al, 1971;Wells et al, 1973Wells et al, , 1982Wang et al, 1977;Liang et al, 1979) and Agropyron elongatum (Sebesta & Bellingham, 1963;Larson & Atkinson, 1970;Sebesta et al, 1972) to wheat. Two genes Cmc1 (Thomas & Conner, 1986;Thomas and Whelan, 1991) and Cmc2 (Larson & Atkinson, 1970) conferring resistance to wheat curl mite colonization have been identified and transferred to wheat.…”