Phenotypic and genomic changes during modern wheat breeding in China and the United States
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellJianqing Niu et al. explore how modern breeding reshaped wheat phenotype and genome in China and the United States, which will facilitate breeding higher performance wheat in the future.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad229
By Jianqing Niu and Hong-Qing Ling from Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory…
BREEDIT, a first step towards breeding by gene editing
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLorenzo et al. develop a system that uses gene editing to target multiple members of redundant gene families.
Christian Damian Lorenzo(1,2), Kevin Debray(1,2) and Dirk Inzé(1,2)
1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium
2 Center for Plant…
Review: The long road to engineering durable disease resistance in wheat (Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.)
Plant Science Research WeeklyThis review by Wulff and Krattinger is a beautifully written “must read”. As the title suggests, it takes the reader on a journey of scientific progress, starting from the “first controlled cross between two wheat species” to the present, with a look into the future. Triticum aestivum (bread…