Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Two classes of genes are used for breeding rust resistant wheat. The first class, called R (for
resistance) genes, are pathogen race specific in their action, effective at all plant growth …

Background Bread wheat is one of the most important and broadly studied crops. However,
due to the complexity of its genome and incomplete genome collection of wild populations …

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 …

Key message Wheat lines with shortened Th. ponticum chromatin carrying Fhb7 and
molecular markers linked to Fhb7 will accelerate the transfer of Fhb7 to breeding lines and …

Key message This consensus map of stem rust genes, QTLs, and molecular markers will
facilitate the identification of new resistance genes and provide a resource of in formation for …

Breeding progress in most crops has relied heavily on the exploitation of variation within the
species' primary gene pool, a process which is destined to fail once the supply of novel …

Rust is the most devastating fungal disease in wheat. Three rust diseases, namely, leaf or
brown rust caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks, stem or black rust caused by Puccinia graminis …

Wheat productivity has been significantly improved worldwide through the incorporation of
novel genes from various gene pools, not least from wild relatives of wheat, into the …

Polyploids are species in which three or more sets of chromosomes coexist. Polyploidy
frequently occurs in plants and plays a major role in their evolution. Based on their origin …