This brief historical review focuses on durum wheat domestication and breeding in the
Mediterranean region. Important milestones in durum wheat breeding programs across the …

The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) has had a
profound impact on plant biology, and crop improvement. In this review, we summarize the …

The domestication of wild emmer wheat led to the selection of modern durum wheat, grown
mainly for pasta production. We describe the 10.45 gigabase (Gb) assembly of the genome …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

New races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), the causal pathogen of wheat stripe rust,
show high virulence to previously deployed resistance genes and are responsible for large …

In crop plants, a high-density genetic linkage map is essential for both genetic and genomic
researches. The complexity and the large size of wheat genome have hampered the …

Root system architecture is crucial for wheat adaptation to drought stress, but phenotyping
for root traits in breeding programmes is difficult and time-consuming owing to the …

High-throughput phenotyping platforms (HTPPs) provide novel opportunities to more
effectively dissect the genetic basis of drought-adaptive traits. This genome-wide association …

Optimization of root system architecture (RSA) traits is an important objective for modern
wheat breeding. Linkage and association mapping for RSA in two recombinant inbred line …

The genetic improvement of durum wheat and enhancement of plant performance often
depend on the identification of stable quantitative trait loci (QTL) and closely linked …