The role of genetic diversity and pre‐breeding traits to improve drought and heat tolerance of bread wheat at the reproductive stage

S Shokat, DK Großkinsky, S Singh… - Food and Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather including heat waves and drought episodes are expected to increase in
intensity and duration due to climate change. Wheat, being a major crop is under extreme …

Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future …

J King, S Dreisigacker, M Reynolds… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of plant genetic resources (PGR)—wild relatives, landraces, and isolated breeding
gene pools—has had substantial impacts on wheat breeding for resistance to biotic and …

Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement

AW Schulthess, SM Kale, F Liu, Y Zhao, N Philipp… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The great efforts spent in the maintenance of past diversity in genebanks are rationalized by
the potential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in future crop improvement—a concept …

Optimizing genomic selection in soybean: An important improvement in agricultural genomics

M Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, I Rajcan, M Eskandari - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Fast-paced yield improvement in strategic crops such as soybean is pivotal for achieving
sustainable global food security. Precise genomic selection (GS), as one of the most …

Exotic alleles contribute to heat tolerance in wheat under field conditions

G Molero, B Coombes, R Joynson, F Pinto… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Global warming poses a major threat to food security and necessitates the development of
crop varieties that are resilient to future climatic instability. By evaluating 149 spring wheat …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the evolution and complexity of wheat germplasm from a genomic perspective

Z Wang, L Miao, Y Chen, H Peng, Z Ni, Q Sun… - Journal of genetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bread wheat provides an essential fraction of the daily calorific intake for humanity. Due to
its huge and complex genome, progress in studying on the wheat genome is substantially …

Wheat omics: advancements and opportunities

D Sehgal, P Dhakate, H Ambreen, KHB Shaik… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plant omics, which includes genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics, has
played a remarkable role in the discovery of new genes and biomolecules that can be …

Large-scale genotyping and phenotyping of a worldwide winter wheat genebank for its use in pre-breeding

AW Schulthess, SM Kale, Y Zhao, A Gogna, M Rembe… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Plant genetic resources (PGR) stored at genebanks are humanity's crop diversity savings for
the future. Information on PGR contrasted with modern cultivars is key to select PGR parents …

Genome‐Wide Association Studies Predicted Drought Stress Occuring at Anthesis and Post‐Anthesis Stages in Novel Diverse Germplasm of Bread Wheat (Triticum …

S Shokat, MAR Arif, BT Favero… - Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study employed genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) to identify the crucial
marker–trait associations (MTAs) for agronomic and physiological traits in bread wheat …

Skipping irrigation at pre-and post-anthesis stages influences grain yield and starch contents of bread wheat derived from synthetic or landraces

S Shokat, MAR Arif, MQ Waheed, F Liu… - Cereal Research …, 2024 - Springer
This study aims to evaluate the role of genetic diversity originated from three-way crosses of
landraces and synthetic bread wheat derivatives attempted with elite cultivars to identify the …