A recombined Sr26 and Sr61 disease resistance gene stack in wheat encodes unrelated NLR genes

J Zhang, TC Hewitt, WHP Boshoff, I Dundas… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The re-emergence of stem rust on wheat in Europe and Africa is reinforcing the ongoing
need for durable resistance gene deployment. Here, we isolate from wheat, Sr26 and Sr61 …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing genetic resistance to rusts in wheat and integrated rust management methods to develop more durable resistant cultivars

J Mapuranga, N Zhang, L Zhang, W Liu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wheat is one of the most important staple foods on earth. Leaf rust, stem rust and stripe rust,
caused by Puccini triticina, Puccinia f. sp. graminis and Puccinia f. sp. striiformis …

Wheat yield losses from pests and pathogens in China

Q Zhang, X Men, C Hui, F Ge, F Ouyang - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wheat is a main food source for more than 40% of the world's population, while pests and
pathogens are widely recognized as a significant obstacle to food security. Assessing the …

The resurgence of introgression breeding, as exemplified in wheat improvement

M Hao, L Zhang, S Ning, L Huang, Z Yuan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Breeding progress in most crops has relied heavily on the exploitation of variation within the
species' primary gene pool, a process which is destined to fail once the supply of novel …

Genomics‐assisted breeding: the next‐generation wheat breeding era

C Sun, H Hu, Y Cheng, X Yang, Q Qiao… - Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Common wheat provides approximately 20% of the total dietary calorie intake of human
beings. Recent technological advances in whole‐genome sequencing and their application …

The evolving battle between yellow rust and wheat: Implications for global food security

L Bouvet, S Holdgate, L James, J Thomas… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a global commodity, and its production is a key component
underpinning worldwide food security. Yellow rust, also known as stripe rust, is a wheat …

A wheat kinase and immune receptor form host-specificity barriers against the blast fungus

S Arora, A Steed, R Goddard, K Gaurav, T O'Hara… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Since emerging in Brazil in 1985, wheat blast has spread throughout South America and
recently appeared in Bangladesh and Zambia. Here we show that two wheat resistance …

[HTML][HTML] How target-sequence enrichment and sequencing (TEnSeq) pipelines have catalyzed resistance gene cloning in the wheat-rust pathosystem

J Zhang, P Zhang, P Dodds, E Lagudah - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The wheat-rust pathosystem has been well-studied among host–pathogen interactions since
last century due to its economic importance. Intensified efforts toward cloning of wheat rust …

Comprehensive meta-QTL analysis for dissecting the genetic architecture of stripe rust resistance in bread wheat

S Kumar, DK Saini, F Jan, S Jan, M Tahir, I Djalovic… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Yellow or stripe rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) is
an important disease of wheat that threatens wheat production. Since developing resistant …

Genome-wide association study and genomic prediction of resistance to stripe rust in current Central and Northern European winter wheat germplasm

F Shahinnia, M Geyer, F Schürmann… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Key message We found two loci on chromosomes 2BS and 6AL that significantly contribute
to stripe rust resistance in current European winter wheat germplasm. Abstract Stripe or …