This brief historical review focuses on durum wheat domestication and breeding in the
Mediterranean region. Important milestones in durum wheat breeding programs across the …

Predicted impacts of climate change on crops—including yield declines and loss of
conservation lands—could be mitigated by exploiting existing diversity within crops. Here we …

Wild species related to agricultural crops (crop wild relatives, or CWR) can increase the
adaptive capacity of agricultural systems around the world. They represent a large pool of …

Undomesticated wild species, crop wild relatives, and landraces represent sources of
variation for wheat improvement to address challenges from climate change and the …

Key message Recent technological advances in wheat genomics provide new opportunities
to uncover genetic variation in traits of breeding interest and enable genome-based …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized plant and animal research in many
ways including new methods of high throughput genotyping. Genotyping-by-sequencing …

Breeders have been successful in increasing crop performance by exploiting genetic
diversity over time. However, the reported annual yield increases are not sufficient in view of …

The value of exotic wheat genetic resources for accelerating grain yield gains is largely
unproven and unrealized. We used next-generation sequencing, together with multi …

To accelerate genetic gains in breeding, physiological trait (PT) characterization of
candidate parents can help make more strategic crosses, increasing the probability of …

Background The narrow genetic base of elite germplasm compromises long-term genetic
gain and increases the vulnerability to biotic and abiotic stresses in unpredictable …