Evolution and origin of bread wheat

AA Levy, M Feldman - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, genome BBAADD) is a young hexaploid species formed
only 8,500–9,000 years ago through hybridization between a domesticated free-threshing …

Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future …

J King, S Dreisigacker, M Reynolds… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of plant genetic resources (PGR)—wild relatives, landraces, and isolated breeding
gene pools—has had substantial impacts on wheat breeding for resistance to biotic and …

Genetic variability, character association, and path coefficient analysis in transplant Aman rice genotypes

ASM Faysal, L Ali, MG Azam, U Sarker, S Ercisli… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
A field experiment was carried out with 20 genotypes of Transplant Aman (T. Aman) rice at
the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman …

Accelerated domestication of new crops: Yield is key

G Luo, J Najafi, PMP Correia, MDL Trinh… - Plant and Cell …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sustainable agriculture in the future will depend on crops that are tolerant to biotic and
abiotic stresses, require minimal input of water and nutrients and can be cultivated with a …

Adapting agriculture to climate change: A synopsis of coordinated national crop wild relative seed collecting programs across five continents

RJ Eastwood, BB Tambam, LM Aboagye, ZI Akparov… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity,
and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and …

The grain quality of wheat wild relatives in the evolutionary context

F Zeibig, B Kilian, M Frei - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2022 - Springer
Key message We evaluated the potential of wheat wild relatives for the improvement in grain
quality characteristics including micronutrients (Fe, Zn) and gluten and identified diploid …

Detecting major introgressions in wheat and their putative origins using coverage analysis

J Keilwagen, H Lehnert, T Berner, E Badaeva… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Introgressions from crop wild relatives (CWRs) have been used to introduce beneficial traits
into cultivated plants. Introgressions have traditionally been detected using cytological …

Can the Wild Perennial, Rhizomatous Rice Species Oryza longistaminata be a Candidate for De Novo Domestication?

S Tong, M Ashikari, K Nagai, O Pedersen - Rice, 2023 - Springer
As climate change intensifies, the development of resilient rice that can tolerate abiotic
stresses is urgently needed. In nature, many wild plants have evolved a variety of …

Crop wild relatives crosses: Multi-location assessment in durum wheat, barley, and lentil

N El Haddad, M Sanchez-Garcia, A Visioni, A Jilal… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are a good source of useful alleles for climate change adaptation.
Here, 19 durum wheat, 24 barley, and 24 lentil elites incorporating CWR in their pedigrees …

Genetic approaches to exploit landraces for improvement of Triticum turgidum ssp. durum in the age of climate change

C Broccanello, D Bellin, G DalCorso, A Furini… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Addressing the challenges of climate change and durum wheat production is becoming an
important driver for food and nutrition security in the Mediterranean area, where are located …