Cereal grains provide half of the calories consumed by humans. In addition, they contain
important compounds beneficial for health. During the last years, a broad spectrum of new …

Cereal crops, including triticeae species (barley, wheat, rye), as well as edible cereals
(wheat, corn, rice, oat, rye, sorghum), are significant suppliers for human consumption …

CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing is a powerful tool of plant functional genomics. Hairy
root transformation is a rapid and convenient approach for obtaining transgenic roots. When …

Common wheat is a major source of nutrition around the globe, but unlike maize and rice
hybrids, no breakthrough has been made to enhance wheat yield since Green Revolution …

Hulled grains, while providing natural protection for seeds, pose a challenge to manual
threshing due to the pair of glumes tightly encasing them. Based on natural evolution and …

SHINE (SHN) clade transcription factors (TFs) represents a subfamily of APETALA2/ethylene-
responsive factor (AP2/ERF) proteins. The latter, is characterized by its responsiveness to …

The Potyviridae are the largest family of plant‐pathogenic viruses. Members of this family
are the soil‐borne bymoviruses barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) and barley mild mosaic …

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the oldest known domesticated crops and the fourth
most widely grown cereal crop in the world. Barley has three principal end-uses: feed, food …

The Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E (EIF4E) is a well-known susceptibility factor
for potyvirus infections in many plant species. The barley yellow mosaic virus disease …

Biotic stresses caused by microbial pathogens impair crop yield and quality if not restricted
by expensive and often ecologically problematic pesticides. For a sustainable agriculture of …