Hybrid breeding in wheat: technologies to improve hybrid wheat seed production

R Whitford, D Fleury, JC Reif, M Garcia… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Global food security demands the development and delivery of new technologies to
increase and secure cereal production on finite arable land without increasing water and …

Hybrid wheat: past, present and future

PK Gupta, HS Balyan, V Gahlaut, G Saripalli… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message The review outlines past failures, present status and future prospects of hybrid
wheat, and includes information on CMS/CHA/transgenic approaches for male sterility …

Concurrent modifications in the three homeologs of Ms45 gene with CRISPR-Cas9 lead to rapid generation of male sterile bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

M Singh, M Kumar, MC Albertsen, JK Young… - Plant molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Key message Hexaploid bread wheat is not readily amenable to traditional mutagenesis
approaches. In this study, we show efficient utilization of CRISPR-Cas system and Next …

Wheat Ms2 encodes for an orphan protein that confers male sterility in grass species

F Ni, J Qi, Q Hao, B Lyu, MC Luo, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Male sterility is a valuable trait for plant breeding and hybrid seed production. The dominant
male-sterile gene Ms2 in common wheat has facilitated the release of hundreds of breeding …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated disruption of TaNP1 genes results in complete male sterility in bread wheat

J Li, Z Wang, G He, L Ma, XW Deng - Journal of genetics and genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
Male sterile genes and mutants are valuable resources in hybrid seed production for
monoclinous crops. High genetic redundancy due to allohexaploidy makes it difficult to …

Pollination control technologies for hybrid breeding

K Kempe, M Gils - Molecular breeding, 2011 - Springer
Efforts in hybrid breeding have made this technology one of the main factors contributing to
the substantial global rise in agricultural output over the last few decades. For hybrid …

Male sterility systems in wheat and opportunities for hybrid wheat development

SP Singh, R Srivastava, J Kumar - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2015 - Springer
The common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a poly (hexa) ploid, derived from an amphi-
diploidization process involving the donor species—Triticum urartu, Aegilops speltoides …

Split-gene system for hybrid wheat seed production

K Kempe, M Rubtsova, M Gils - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Hybrid wheat plants are superior in yield and growth characteristics compared with their
homozygous parents. The commercial production of wheat hybrids is difficult because of the …

Estimation of heterosis and combining abilities of US winter wheat germplasm for hybrid development in Texas

A Adhikari, AMH Ibrahim, JC Rudd… - Crop …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) offers promises to break the yield stagnation in global
wheat productivity as a result of heterosis. But, for this promise to be realized, the level of …

Heterosis in crop improvement

J Paril, J Reif, A Fournier‐Level… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor, is the phenomenon wherein a progeny exhibits
superior traits relative to one or both parents. In terms of crop breeding, this usually refers to …