Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Wheat is a crop of historical significance, as it marks the turning point of human civilization
10,000 years ago with its domestication. Due to the rapid increase in population, wheat …

Sugarcane, the world's most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade
and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar production worldwide. While …

Crop wild relatives offer natural variations of disease resistance for crop improvement. Here,
we report the isolation of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance gene Pm36, originated …

Aegilops tauschii, the diploid wild progenitor of the D subgenome of bread wheat, is a
reservoir of genetic diversity for improving bread wheat performance and environmental …

The introgression of chromosome segments from wild relatives is an established strategy to
enrich crop germplasm with disease-resistance genes. Here we use mutagenesis and …

Gene cloning in repeat-rich polyploid genomes remains challenging. Here, we describe a
strategy for overcoming major bottlenecks in cloning of the powdery mildew resistance gene …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a staple food for about 40% of the world's population. As the
global population has grown and living standards improved, high yield and improved …

Powdery mildew is a devastating disease that affects wheat yield and quality. Wheat wild
relatives represent valuable sources of disease resistance genes. Cloning and …

Plant diseases reduce crop yields and threaten global food security, making the selection of
disease-resistant cultivars a major goal of crop breeding. Broad-spectrum resistance (BSR) …