Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Plants have many, highly variable resistance (R) gene loci, which provide resistance to a
variety of pathogens. The first R gene to be cloned, maize (Zea mays) Hm1, was published …

Disruption of susceptibility (S) genes in crops is an attractive breeding strategy for conferring
disease resistance,. However, S genes are implicated in many essential biological functions …

The discovery and application of genome editing introduced a new era of plant breeding by
giving researchers efficient tools for the precise engineering of crop genomes. Here we …

Since it was first recognized in bacteria and archaea as a mechanism for innate viral
immunity in the early 2010s, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Rice feeds half the world's population, and rice blast is often a destructive disease that
results in significant crop loss. Non-race-specific resistance has been more effective in …

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera), one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world,
suffers significant yield losses from powdery mildew, a major fungal disease caused by …

Crop breeding aims to balance disease resistance with yield; however, single resistance (R)
genes can lead to resistance breakdown, and R gene pyramiding may affect growth fitness …

Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to
global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens …

Background It is a long-standing goal of scientists and breeders to precisely control a gene
for studying its function as well as improving crop yield, quality, and tolerance to various …