Marker-assisted selection (MAS) provides opportunities for enhancing the response from
selection because molecular markers can be applied at the seedling stage, with high …

Plant pathogens cause yield losses in crops worldwide. Breeding for improved disease
resistance and management by precision agriculture are two approaches to limit such yield …

Background and aims Plant breeding activities shape the rhizosphere microbiome but less
is known about the relationship of both with the seed microbiome. We analyzed the …

Stripe rust disease is caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and severely
threatens wheat worldwide, repeatedly breaking resistance conferred by resistance genes …

Generating genomics-driven knowledge opens a way to accelerate the resistance breeding
process by family or population mapping and genomic selection. Important prerequisites are …

Background The use of spectral imaging within the plant phenotyping and breeding
community has been increasing due its utility as a non-invasive diagnostic tool. However …

Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a grain legume widely cultivated in temperate climates. It is
important in the race for food security owing to its multipurpose low-input requirement and …

Cultivar mixtures slow polycyclic epidemics but may also affect the evolution of pathogen
populations by diversifying the selection pressures exerted by their plant hosts at field scale …

Global food security depends on cereal crops with durable disease resistance. Most cereals
are colonized by rust fungi, which are pathogens of major significance for global agriculture …

A collection of 84 bread wheat Spanish landraces were inoculated with three isolates of leaf
rust and one of yellow rust at the seedling stage in controlled conditions. The latency period …