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Phenotypic and genomic changes during modern wheat breeding in China and the United States

Jianqing 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

Lorenzo 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.)

This 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…