Deploying under-utilized landraces in wheat breeding has been advocated to accelerate
genetic gains in current era of genomics assisted breeding. Mexican bread wheat landraces …

Among several important wheat foliar diseases, Stripe rust (YR), Leaf rust (LR), and Stem
rust (SR) have always been an issue of concern to the farmers and wheat breeders …

Yellow rust (YR) or stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striformis f. sp tritici Eriks (Pst), is a major
challenge to resistance breeding in wheat. A genome wide association study (GWAS) was …

Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina (Pt), stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp.
tritici (Pst), and stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) are major diseases to …

Background Wheat rusts are important biotic stresses, development of rust resistant cultivars
through molecular approaches is both economical and sustainable. Extensive phenotyping …

The likelihood of success in developing modern cultivars depend on multiple factors,
including the identification of suitable parents to initiate new crosses, and characterizations …

Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is a severe disease in wheat worldwide,
including Ethiopia, causing up to 100% wheat yield loss in the worst season. The use of …

Durum wheat is an important cereal grown in Ethiopia, a country which is also its center for
genetic diversity. Yellow (stripe) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis fsp tritici is one of the …

Background The narrow genetic basis of resistance in modern wheat cultivars and the
strong selection response of pathogen populations have been responsible for periodic and …

Key message Genome-wide association mapping in conjunction with population
sequencing map and Ensembl plants was used to identify markers/candidate genes linked …