In recent years, wheat yield per hectare appears to have reached a plateau, leading to
concerns for future food security with an increasing world population. Since its invention …

Tan spot is a devastating foliar disease of wheat caused by the necrotrophic fungal
pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Much has been learned during the past two decades …

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 …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Key message Genome-wide association mapping in conjunction with population
sequencing map and Ensembl plants was used to identify markers/candidate genes linked …

Tan spot, caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is a serious foliar disease of wheat in
Kazakhstan with reported yield losses as high as 50% during epidemic years. Here, we …

Key message Spot blotch disease resistance gene Sb3 was mapped to a 0.15 centimorgan
(cM) genetic interval spanning a 602 kb physical genomic region on chromosome 3BS …

Fungal diseases are among the most devastating biotic stresses and often cause significant
losses in wheat production worldwide. A set of 173 synthetic hexaploid wheat (SHW) …

Background In the late 1920s, AE Watkins collected about 7000 landrace cultivars (LCs) of
bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from 32 different countries around the world. Among …