Fusarium head blight (FHB), or scab, for its devastating nature to wheat production and food
security, has stimulated worldwide attention. Multidisciplinary efforts have been made to fight …

Omics technologies, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and
phenomics, are becoming an integral part of virtually every commercial cereal crop breeding …

Trichothecenes are sesquiterpenoid mycotoxins produced by fungi from the order
Hypocreales, including members of the Fusarium genus that infect cereal grain crops …

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin virulence factor that promotes growth of the Fusarium
graminearum fungus in wheat floral tissues. To further our understanding of the effects of …

Fusarium head blight (FHB), mainly caused by Fusarium graminearum, is one of the most
devastating diseases in wheat and barley worldwide. In addition to causing severe yield …

Fusarium graminearum is one of the most destructive plant pathogens worldwide, causing
fusarium head blight (FHB) on cereals. F. graminearum colonizes wheat plant surfaces with …

Fusarium graminearum is a devasting mycotoxin-producing pathogen of grain crops. F.
graminearum has been extensively studied to understand its pathogenicity and virulence …

Modern wheat production comes from two polyploid species, Triticum aestivum and Triticum
turgidum (var durum), which putatively arose from diploid ancestors Triticum urartu, Aegilops …

Background Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a devastating disease of wheat worldwide.
Resistance to FHB is quantitatively controlled by the combined effects of many small to …

Quantitative disease resistance (QDR) represents the predominant form of resistance in
natural populations and crops. Surprisingly, very limited information exists on the …