Bioinformatics approaches and applications in plant biotechnology

YC Tan, AU Kumar, YP Wong, APK Ling - Journal of Genetic Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In recent years, major advance in molecular biology and genomic technologies
have led to an exponential growth in biological information. As the deluge of genomic …

OMICs, epigenetics, and genome editing techniques for food and nutritional security

YV Gogolev, S Ahmar, BA Akpinar, H Budak… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The incredible success of crop breeding and agricultural innovation in the last century
greatly contributed to the Green Revolution, which significantly increased yields and …

Exogenous double‐stranded RNA inhibits the infection physiology of rust fungi to reduce symptoms in planta

RM Degnan, AR McTaggart, LS Shuey… - Molecular Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rust fungi (Pucciniales) are a diverse group of plant pathogens in natural and agricultural
systems. They pose ongoing threats to the diversity of native flora and cause annual crop …

[HTML][HTML] Selected emerging and reemerging plant pathogens affecting the food basket: A threat to food security

RW Mwangi, M Mustafa, K Charles, IW Wagara… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023 - Elsevier
The introduction and spread of plant diseases and insect pests, mostly in horticulture and
forestry, among food crops and other plant species have significant global repercussions for …

Unravelling consensus genomic regions conferring leaf rust resistance in wheat via meta‐QTL analysis

A Amo, JM Soriano - The Plant Genome, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia triticina Erikss (Pt), is a destructive disease
affecting wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and a threat to food security. Developing resistant …

A high‐quality reference genome for Fraxinus pennsylvanica for ash species restoration and research

M Huff, J Seaman, D Wu… - Molecular ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) is the most widely distributed ash tree in North America.
Once common, it has experienced high mortality from the non‐native invasive emerald ash …

Double-stranded RNA prevents and cures infection by rust fungi

RM Degnan, LS Shuey, J Radford-Smith… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Fungal pathogens that impact perennial plants or natural ecosystems require management
strategies beyond fungicides and breeding for resistance. Rust fungi, some of the most …

[图书][B] Wheat evolution and domestication

M Feldman, AA Levy - 2023 - library.oapen.org
This open access book covers a century of research on wheat genetics and evolution,
starting with the discovery in 1918 of the accurate number of chromosomes in wheat. We re …

Stem rust: its history in Kenya and research to combat a global wheat threat

TG Fetch, RF Park, ZA Pretorius… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a major disease of wheat. In
Kenya, Pgt has caused sporadic but serious losses to farmers since large-scale wheat …

An Efficient Brome mosaic virus-Based Gene Silencing Protocol for Hexaploid Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Y Wang, C Chai, B Khatabi, WR Scheible… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a rapid and powerful method to evaluate gene
function, especially for species like hexaploid wheat that have large, redundant genomes …