What is gluten—why is it special?

P Shewry - Frontiers in nutrition, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Wheat gluten has an immense impact on human nutrition as it largely determines the
processing properties of wheat flour, and in particular the ability to make leavened breads …

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing of gluten in wheat to reduce gluten content and exposure—Reviewing methods to screen for coeliac safety

A Jouanin, LJWJ Gilissen, JG Schaart, FJ Leigh… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ingestion of gluten proteins (gliadins and glutenins) from wheat, barley and rye can cause
coeliac disease (CD) in genetically predisposed individuals. The only remedy is a strict and …

Exploration of glutathione reductase for abiotic stress response in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Madhu, A Kaur, S Tyagi, Shumayla, K Singh… - Plant Cell Reports, 2022 - Springer
Key message A total of seven glutathione reductase (GR) genes were identified in Triticum
aestivum, which were used for comparative structural characterization, phylogenetic …

Long-read and chromosome-scale assembly of the hexaploid wheat genome achieves high resolution for research and breeding

JM Aury, S Engelen, B Istace, C Monat… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background The sequencing of the wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome has been a
methodological challenge for many years owing to its large size (15.5 Gb), repeat content …

Genomic and functional genomics analyses of gluten proteins and prospect for simultaneous improvement of end-use and health-related traits in wheat

D Wang, F Li, S Cao, K Zhang - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020 - Springer
Key message Recent genomic and functional genomics analyses have substantially
improved the understanding on gluten proteins, which are important determinants of wheat …

Meta-analysis reveals consensus genomic regions associated with multiple disease resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

DK Saini, A Chahal, N Pal, P Srivastava, PK Gupta - Molecular Breeding, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In wheat, meta-QTLs (MQTLs) and candidate genes (CGs) were identified for
multiple disease resistance (MDR). For this purpose, information was collected from 58 …

Is gluten the only culprit for non-celiac gluten/wheat sensitivity?

MG Mumolo, F Rettura, S Melissari, F Costa, A Ricchiuti… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The gluten-free diet (GFD) has gained increasing popularity in recent years, supported by
marketing campaigns, media messages and social networks. Nevertheless, real knowledge …

Genome-wide analysis, expansion and expression of the NAC family under drought and heat stresses in bread wheat (T. aestivum L.)

C Guerin, J Roche, V Allard, C Ravel, S Mouzeyar… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The NAC family is one of the largest plant-specific transcription factor families, and some of
its members are known to play major roles in plant development and response to biotic and …

Physical mapping of QTL associated with agronomic and end-use quality traits in spring wheat under conventional and organic management systems

K Semagn, M Iqbal, H Chen, E Perez-Lara… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Using phenotypic data of four biparental spring wheat populations evaluated
at multiple environments under two management systems, we discovered 152 QTL and 22 …

Aegilops tauschii genome assembly Aet v5.0 features greater sequence contiguity and improved annotation

L Wang, T Zhu, JC Rodriguez, KR Deal, J Dubcovsky… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aegilops tauschii is the donor of the D subgenome of hexaploid wheat and an important
genetic resource. The reference-quality genome sequence Aet v4. 0 for Ae. tauschii acc …