In recent years, wheat yield per hectare appears to have reached a plateau, leading to
concerns for future food security with an increasing world population. Since its invention …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), with a large genome (16000 Mb) and high proportion (∼ 80%)
of repetitive sequences, has been a difficult crop for genomics research. However, the …

Abstract Background Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop
worldwide. Until very recently, cucumber genetic and genomic resources, especially …

Incorporation of genetic diversity into elite wheat (Triticum aestivum L., 2n= 6x= 42,
AABBDD) cultivars has long been recognized as a means of improving wheat productivity …

Aegilops species have significantly contributed to wheat breeding despite the difficulties
involved in the handling of wild species, such as crossability and incompatibility. A number …

Cereal aphids are vectors of at least 11 species of Barley Yellow Dwarf Viruses (BYDV) in
wheat that alone and/or in combination can cause between 5%–80% grain yield losses …

Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is the only taxon with 2n= 2x= 14 chromosomes in the genus
Cucumis. It consists of two cross‐compatible botanical varieties: the cultivated C. sativus var …

In recent decades, genetic advances in yield improvement in the major cereal crops,
including wheat, has stagnated or proceeded at a slower rate than is required to meet future …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …