Harnessing adult-plant resistance genes to deploy durable disease resistance in crops

E Dinglasan, S Periyannan, LT Hickey - Essays in biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Adult-plant resistance (APR) is a type of genetic resistance in cereals that is effective during
the later growth stages and can protect plants from a range of disease-causing pathogens …

Resequencing of 145 landmark cultivars reveals asymmetric sub-genome selection and strong founder genotype effects on wheat breeding in China

C Hao, C Jiao, J Hou, T Li, H Liu, Y Wang, J Zheng… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

Tracing the ancestry of modern bread wheats

C Pont, T Leroy, M Seidel, A Tondelli, W Duchemin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract For more than 10,000 years, the selection of plant and animal traits that are better
tailored for human use has shaped the development of civilizations. During this period …

Opportunities to reduce heat damage in rain-fed wheat crops based on plant breeding and agronomic management

JR Hunt, PT Hayman, RA Richards, JB Passioura - Field Crops Research, 2018 - Elsevier
High temperatures can substantially reduce the yield of rain-fed wheat at any stage of crop
development. They can result in poor establishment, poor floral fertility, inopportune …

Worldwide phylogeography and history of wheat genetic diversity

F Balfourier, S Bouchet, S Robert, R De Oliveira… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Since its domestication in the Fertile Crescent~ 8000 to 10,000 years ago, wheat has
undergone a complex history of spread, adaptation, and selection. To get better insights into …

From landraces to improved cultivars: Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of Mediterranean wheat using SNP markers

R Rufo, F Alvaro, C Royo, JM Soriano - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure in crops is essential for breeding
and germplasm conservation. A collection of 354 bread wheat genotypes, including …

Multi-locus genome-wide association studies (ML-GWAS) reveal novel genomic regions associated with seedling and adult plant stage leaf rust resistance in bread …

VK Vikas, AK Pradhan, N Budhlakoti, DC Mishra… - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
Leaf rust is one of the important diseases limiting global wheat production and productivity.
To identify quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) or genomic regions associated with seedling …

Genome-wide association map** of grain yield in a diverse collection of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) evaluated in southern Australia

M Garcia, P Eckermann, S Haefele, S Satija… - PLoS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Wheat landraces, wild relatives and other 'exotic'accessions are important sources of new
favorable alleles. The use of those exotic alleles is facilitated by having access to …

Direct introgression of untapped diversity into elite wheat lines

S Singh, A Jighly, D Sehgal, J Burgueño, R Joukhadar… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
The effective utilization of natural variation has become essential in addressing the
challenges that climate change and population growth pose to global food security …

Advances in breeding for abiotic stress tolerance in wheat

S Mondal, A Sallam, D Sehgal, S Sukumaran… - Genomic designing for …, 2021 - Springer
Wheat is a key economically important cereal crop that is consumed globally. While the
grain yield increase is steady at around 1%, it is not enough to meet the growing global …