Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China

J Xiao, B Liu, Y Yao, Z Guo, H Jia, L Kong… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Evolution and origin of bread wheat

AA Levy, M Feldman - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, genome BBAADD) is a young hexaploid species formed
only 8,500–9,000 years ago through hybridization between a domesticated free-threshing …

Population genomics unravels the Holocene history of bread wheat and its relatives

X Zhao, Y Guo, L Kang, C Yin, A Bi, D Xu, Z Zhang… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

An unusual tandem kinase fusion protein confers leaf rust resistance in wheat

Y Wang, M Abrouk, S Gourdoupis, DH Koo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The introgression of chromosome segments from wild relatives is an established strategy to
enrich crop germplasm with disease-resistance genes. Here we use mutagenesis and …

Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69

Y Li, ZZ Wei, H Sela, L Govta, V Klymiuk… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Gene cloning in repeat-rich polyploid genomes remains challenging. Here, we describe a
strategy for overcoming major bottlenecks in cloning of the powdery mildew resistance gene …

A wheat kinase and immune receptor form host-specificity barriers against the blast fungus

S Arora, A Steed, R Goddard, K Gaurav, T O'Hara… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Since emerging in Brazil in 1985, wheat blast has spread throughout South America and
recently appeared in Bangladesh and Zambia. Here we show that two wheat resistance …

Triticeae crop genome biology: an endless frontier

Z Gao, J Bian, F Lu, Y Jiao, H He - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Triticeae, the wheatgrass tribe, includes several major cereal crops and their wild relatives.
Major crops within the Triticeae are wheat, barley and rye which are important for human …

A platform for whole-genome speed introgression from Aegilops tauschii to wheat for breeding future crops

H Li, L Zhu, R Fan, Z Li, Y Liu, A Shaheen, F Nie, C Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Breeding new and sustainable crop cultivars of high yields and desirable traits has been a
major challenge for ensuring food security for the growing global human population. For …

Open chromatin interaction maps reveal functional regulatory elements and chromatin architecture variations during wheat evolution

J Yuan, H Sun, Y Wang, L Li, S Chen, W Jiao, G Jia… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is an allohexaploid that is generated
by two subsequent allopolyploidization events. The large genome size (16 Gb) and …

Pan-genome bridges wheat structural variations with habitat and breeding

C Jiao, X Xie, C Hao, L Chen, Y Xie, V Garg, L Zhao… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Wheat is the second largest food crop with a very good breeding system and pedigree
record in China. Investigating the genomic footprints of wheat cultivars will unveil potential …