Fourteen winter wheat varieties obtained from the Czech Republic for testing disease resistance were sown in dishes and grown in the field next to the LRTCW line and variety Rodna of Serbia and Montenegro, 2003. All genotypes were found by the type of reaction to be susceptible to Puccinia triticina at the seedling stage in the greenhouse. In four varieties with comparatively short leaves, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis was found to appear at a frequency of 20% on the leaves below the last two. The following year untreated seeds of all varieties were sown in the field and no Pyrenophora tritici-repentis was found. The average difference in the intensity of Puccinia triticina infection on the last two leaves between the two years was 51% for t...