Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world. The production and productivity
of wheat is adversely affected by several diseases including leaf rust, which can cause yield …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), with a large genome (16000 Mb) and high proportion (∼ 80%)
of repetitive sequences, has been a difficult crop for genomics research. However, the …

Rust resistance genes Lr37, Sr38, and Yr17 are located within a segment of Triticum
ventricosum (Tausch) Cess. chromosome 2NS translocated to the short arm of bread wheat …

Aegilops species have significantly contributed to wheat breeding despite the difficulties
involved in the handling of wild species, such as crossability and incompatibility. A number …

Functional markers (FM) are developed from sequence polymorphisms present in allelic
variants of a functional gene at a locus. FMs accurately discriminate alleles of a targeted …

Genetic mapping of major genes and quantitative traits loci (QTLs) for many important
agricultural traits is increasing the integration of biotechnology with the conventional …

Among cereal crops, wheat has been identified as a major source for human food
consumption. Wheat breeders require access to new genetic diversity resources to satisfy …

Wild Aegilops species related to cultivated wheat (Triticum spp.) possess numerous genes
of agronomic interest and can be valuable sources of resistance to diseases, pests and …

Mapping and tagging of agriculturally important genes have been greatly facilitated by an
array of molecular markers in crop plants. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is gaining …

The size and structure of the wheat genome makes it one of the most complex crop species
for genetic analysis. The development of molecular techniques for genetic analysis, in …