Salt stress under the scalpel–dissecting the genetics of salt tolerance

MJL Morton, M Awlia, N Al‐Tamimi, S Saade… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Salt stress limits the productivity of crops grown under saline conditions, leading to
substantial losses of yield in saline soils and under brackish and saline irrigation. Salt …

The Wheat 660K SNP array demonstrates great potential for marker‐assisted selection in polyploid wheat

C Sun, Z Dong, L Zhao, Y Ren… - Plant biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development and application of molecular marker assays have facilitated genomic
selection and genome‐wide linkage and association studies in wheat breeding. Although …

Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple

JS Borrell, MK Biswas, M Goodwin, G Blomme… - Annals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently
provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over …

A wheat cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase confers broad-spectrum resistance against Septoria tritici blotch

C Saintenac, F Cambon, L Aouini, E Verstappen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The poverty of disease resistance gene reservoirs limits the breeding of crops for durable
resistance against evolutionary dynamic pathogens. Zymoseptoria tritici which causes …

From markers to genome-based breeding in wheat

A Rasheed, X Xia - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019 - Springer
Key message Recent technological advances in wheat genomics provide new opportunities
to uncover genetic variation in traits of breeding interest and enable genome-based …

Profiling, isolation and characterisation of beneficial microbes from the seed microbiomes of drought tolerant wheat

H Hone, R Mann, G Yang, J Kaur, I Tannenbaum… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is predicted to increase the incidence and severity of drought conditions,
posing a significant challenge for agriculture globally. Plant microbiomes have been …

Breeding strategies for structuring salinity tolerance in wheat

A Mujeeb-Kazi, R Munns, A Rasheed… - Advances in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The wheat gene pool has a tremendous amount of genetic diversity for salinity tolerance.
During the last few decades, several wheat genetic stocks have been developed showing all …

Putting primary metabolism into perspective to obtain better fruits

B Beauvoit, I Belouah, N Bertin, CB Cakpo… - Annals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background One of the key goals of fruit biology is to understand the factors that influence
fruit growth and quality, ultimately with a view to manipulating them for improvement of fruit …

Genetic diversity analysis in wheat cultivars using SCoT and ISSR markers, chloroplast DNA barcoding and grain SEM

HH Abouseada, ASH Mohamed, SS Teleb, A Badr… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Background Wheat is a major cereal that can narrow the gap between the increasing human
population and food production. In this connection, assessing genetic diversity and …

Genome sequencing of Sitopsis species provides insights into their contribution to the B subgenome of bread wheat

Y Yang, L Cui, Z Lu, G Li, Z Yang, G Zhao, C Kong… - Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
Wheat (Triticum aestivum, BBAADD) is an allohexaploid species that originated from two
polyploidization events. The progenitors of the A and D subgenomes have been identified …