As one of the essential cereal crops, wheat provides 20% of the calories and proteins
consumed by humans. Due to population expansion, dietary shift and climate change, it is …

Functional cloning and manipulation of genes controlling various agronomic traits are
important for boosting crop production. Although bulked segregant analysis (BSA) is an …

Durable crop disease resistance is an essential component of global food security.
Continuous pathogen evolution leads to a breakdown of resistance and there is a pressing …

Magnesium chelatase (MgCh) catalyzes the insertion of magnesium into protoporphyrin IX,
a vital step in chlorophyll (Chl) biogenesis. The enzyme consists of 3 subunits, MgCh I …

The utilization of stabilized DELLA proteins Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b was crucial for increasing
wheat (Triticum aestivum) productivity during the Green Revolution. However, the underlying …

Grain size and weight are key components of wheat yield. Exploitation of major underlying
quantitative trait loci (QTL) can improve yield potential in wheat breeding. A recombinant …

Powdery mildew of wheat (Triticum aestivum), caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt),
is a destructive disease that seriously threatens the yield and quality of its host. Identifying …

Key message Combined with BSE-Seq analysis and multiple genetic populations, three
genes involved in stripe rust resistance were identified in Chinese wheat landrace …

Reducing generation time is critical to achieving the goals of genetic gain in important crops
like wheat (Triticum aestivum). Speed breeding (SB) has been shown to considerably …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important food crops worldwide, providing up to
20% of the caloric intake per day. Developing high-yielding wheat cultivars with tolerance …