Abstract:We characterized the resistance of the differential variety Fengchan3 of wheat to yellow rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici using genetic methods. After inoculated, the wheat seedlings were kept under different temperature conditions (17℃ at daytime and 10℃ at night or 24℃ at daytime and 15℃ at night). The research results indicated that at least two major genes (one is dominant and the other is recessive) and two recessive minor genes were involved in the resistance reactions of Fengchan3. The minor genes were both temperature-inducible. The resistance of Fengchan3 to the race CY17 of P.striiformis was controlled by two complementary major genes; the two minor genes had additive genetic effects on the regulation of yellow rust resistance and were induced to involve in the resistance to CY26 by high temperature. When the major genes were both homozygously recessive, disease reactions to the race CY17 were presented on 0; to 1+ scale; while one of them was homozygously recessive, the disease reactions of Fengchan3 were presented on 2- to 3 scale. The disease reactions to the race CY26 were presented on 3+ -4 when the two minor genes were both heterozygous. Through pedigree analysis, we predicted that the dominant major resistance gene for CY17 in Fengchan3 was derived from a wheat variety Danish1, and the other recessive major resistance gene was provided by one of its parents (6028). Allelic analysis showed that two major genes resistant to CY17 in Fengchan3 were different from those major resistance genes such as Yr9, Yr17, YrKy1, YrKy2, and YrSu in Lovrin13, VPMI, Kangyin655 and Shuiyuan11, respectively. Therefore, the two major resistance genes in Fengchan3 were temporarily designated as YrFc1 and YrFc2. Because of the temperature-sensitive minor genes in Fengchan3, the inoculation temperature is one of the critical factors for the infection types. It is not allowed to continuously keep the inoculated wheat seedlings under a temperature above 18℃ more than 8 hours when using Fengchan3 as a differential variety.