Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

The importance of plant genetic diversity (PGD) is now being recognized as a specific area
since exploding population with urbanization and decreasing cultivable lands are the critical …

Rye (Secale cereale L.) is an exceptionally climate-resilient cereal crop, used extensively to
produce improved wheat varieties via introgressive hybridization and possessing the entire …

Key message A physical map of Secale cereale chromosome 6R was constructed using
deletion mapping, and a new stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 was mapped to the deletion …

Wild relatives of common wheat, Triticum aestivum, and related species are an important
source of disease and pest resistance and several useful traits have been transferred from …

Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold great potential for plant breeding as it promises
to expedite the time taken to produce crop varieties with desirable characters. With the use …

We report on a whole‐genome draft sequence of rye (Secale cereale L.). Rye is a diploid
Triticeae species closely related to wheat and barley, and an important crop for food and …

This 2013 edition of the Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat represents 45 years of
curation of wheat genetic information which began with my appointment as Curator at the …

The recent advances in alien gene transfer from distantly-related species into wheat are
reviewed in the present paper. The main achievements during the last ten years include the …

Many cereals accumulate hydroxamic acids derived from 2-hydroxy-2 H-1, 4-benzoxazin-3
(4 H)-one. These benzoxazinoid hydroxamic acids are involved in defense of maize against …